Collinson Sawyer
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Education
He was born in 1831 and educated at Abingdon School, from 1845 to 1850 [2] and Oriel College, Oxford.[3]
Career
After some years as the Vicar of Tunbridge Wells,[4] he was appointed the inaugural Bishop of Grafton and Armidale in Australia [5] 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.[6] Around three months over taking charge of the diocese, he died by drowning[7] when his boat was upset[8] in the Clarence River on Sunday 15 March 1868.[9]
See also
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References
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- ↑ British History on-lione
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- ↑ ”The Letters of Charles Dickens, Vol XI” Brown, MHouse, M/Storey, G/Tillotson, K: Oxford Clarendon, 1982 Template:ISBN
- ↑ Grafton Cathedral web-site
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- ↑ State Library of NSW
- ↑ Illustrated London News, 1868
- ↑ Template:Cite Australasia
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