Acton Sillitoe

Acton Windeyer Sillitoe[1] (also Wyndeyer; 12 July 1840[2] – 9 June 1894)[3][4] was the first Bishop of New Westminster.

Sillitoe was born in Sydney[2] and educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge[5] and ordained in the Church of England: he was made deacon on 21 February 1869 by George Selwyn (Bishop of Lichfield) at St Peter's Church, Wolverhampton[6] and ordained priest by Selwyn in 1870.[7][8] After curacies at Brierley Hill and Wolverhampton he was the incumbent at Ellenbrook from 1873 to 1876. After this he was a chaplain at Geneva then Darmstadt. He was consecrated a bishop 1 November 1879 by Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury at Croydon Parish Church[2] and went to British Columbia (Canada) to serve as the first Bishop of New Westminster; he also became a Doctor of Divinity (DD).

References
  1. Photo of Sillitoe
  2. "Archived copy". anglicanarchives.org.au. Archived from the original on 9 April 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. NPG details
  4. Find a grave
  5. Alumni Cantabrigienses
  6. "Church news: Ordinations (col. 4)". Church Times. No. 317. 26 February 1869. p. 85. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 27 January 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
  7. "Crockford's Clerical Directory 1985" p1267: London; Horace Cox; 1885
  8. "Pioneer Church Work in British Columbia, by Herbert H. Gowen".


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