George Best (priest)

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Best married Elizabeth Stanser, a daughter of Robert Stanser who was the bishop of Nova Scotia, on 21 August 1820.[1] When the diocese of Nova Scotia was divided into four sub-sections, he was selected for one of them and was appointed the first archdeacon of New Brunswick in 1824.[2] This position was under the direction of John Inglis who had succeeded Stanser as bishop. He was also reluctantly the first president of King's College, Fredericton.[1] He was succeeded as archdeacon by George Coster, who was the archdeacon of Newfoundland.[1]

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