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The Rt Rev William Collinson Sawyer, DD[1] was a colonial Anglican Bishop in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. He was born in 1831 and educated at Abingdon School and Oriel College, Oxford.[2] After some years as the Vicar of Tunbridge Wells,[3] he was appointed the inaugural Bishop of Grafton and Armidale[4] on 30 January 1867, consecrated on 2 February 1867 and died by drowning[5] when his boat was upset[6] in the Clarence River on Sunday 15 March 1868.
Notes
- ^ British History on-lione
- ^ National Archives
- ^ ”The Letters of Charles Dickens, Vol XI” Brown,MHouse,M/Storey,G/Tillotson,K: Oxford Clarendon, 1982 ISBN 0198122950
- ^ Grafton Cathedral web-site
- ^ State Library of NSW
- ^ Illustrated London News, 1868
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