Collinson Sawyer
William Collinson Sawyer | |
|---|---|
 William Collinson Sawyer | |
| Title | Bishop of Grafton and Armidale |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 30 August 1831 |
| Died | 15 March 1868 (aged 36) |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Anglican |
| Consecration | 2 February 1867 |
William Collinson Sawyer (1831 – 15 March 1868) was a colonial Anglican bishop in the third quarter of the nineteenth century.
Education
He was born in 1831 and educated at Abingdon School, from 1845 to 1850 and Oriel College, Oxford.
Career
After some years as the Vicar of Tunbridge Wells, he was appointed the inaugural Bishop of Grafton and Armidale in Australia on 30 January 1867 and consecrated to the episcopate at Canterbury Cathedral on the Feast of the Purification (2 February 1867), by Charles Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury. Around three months over taking charge of the diocese, he died by drowning when his boat was upset in the Clarence River on Sunday 15 March 1868.
See also
References
- ↑ British History on-lione
- ↑ "Register". Abingdon School.
- ↑ National Archives
- ↑ ”The Letters of Charles Dickens, Vol XI” Brown, MHouse, M/Storey, G/Tillotson, K: Oxford Clarendon, 1982 ISBN 0-19-812295-0
- ↑ Grafton Cathedral web-site
- ↑ "Church news: Consecration of three colonial prelates". Church Times. No. 210. 9 February 1867. p. 49. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 23 December 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ↑ State Library of NSW
- ↑ Illustrated London News, 1868
- ↑ Mennell, Philip (1892). . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co. p. 404 – via Wikisource.
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