Bishop Harmer and Bishop Kennion |
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| Title : | Bishop Harmer and Bishop Kennion |
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| Source : | Webb, Lucy : PRG 231/5/3/1 | ||
| Date of creation : | ca 1895 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
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In 1883, at the age of just 37, George Wyndham Kennion became the second Anglican Bishop of Adelaide. Lucy Webb, the daughter of one of his priests recalled, 'His courtly manners and mode of speech were quite natural to him, though many thought him jammy, but he had always lived in the atmosphere of courts'. He left in 1894 to take up the prestigious English Bishopric of Bath and Wells, where he was said to have surprised residents of the ancient town by choosing to ride a bicycle rather than travel in his stately horse-drawn carriage. His successor was another bright young Englishman, John Reginald Harmer who was 38 when he became Bishop of Adelaide. |
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| Related names : | Harmer, J.R. (John Reginald), 1857-1944 Kennion, George Wyndham, 1845-1922 Anglican Church of Australia. Diocese of Adelaide |
| Coverage year : | 1895 |
| Place : | Wells (England) |
| Further reading : | Hilliard, David. Godliness and good order: a history of the Anglican Church in South Australia, Netley: Wakefield Press, 1986 Hilliard, David. 'Harmer, John Reginald (1857-1944)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983, pp. 199-200 Warner, J.R. 'Kennion, George Wyndham (1845-1922)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974 |
| Internet links : | Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: Search for George Wyndham Kennion, and John Reginald Harmer |
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