Henry Bousfield

Henry Brougham Bousfield[1] (27 March 1832 – 10 February 1902) was a colonial Anglican priest and the inaugural Bishop of Pretoria 1878-1902.[2][3]

For the British admiral, see Henry Bousfield (Royal Navy officer).

The Right Reverend

Henry Bousfield
Bishop of Pretoria
DioceseDiocese of Pretoria
In office1878–1902
SuccessorWilliam Carter
Orders
Ordination1856
by Charles Sumner, Bishop of Winchester
Consecration1878
Personal details
Born(1832-03-27)27 March 1832
Died10 February 1902(1902-02-10) (aged 69)
DenominationAnglican
Alma materGonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Life

Bousfield was born on 27 March 1832, the son of William Cheek Bousfield, a barrister. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge[4] (whence he gained his Cambridge Master of Arts {MA Cantab}). Ordained in 1856,[5] his first post was as a curate at All Saints, Braishfield. From 1861 to 1870 he was vicar of St Maurice Winchester, then rural dean of Andover from 1870 to 1878.[6][7]

He became the inaugural Bishop of Pretoria in 1878[8] holding the post until his death on 10 February 1902.[9][10] He was instrumental in promoting the Anglican church in what is today the Limpopo Province and the Diocese of St Mark the Evangelist. At the urging of local congregants in Pietersburg (now renamed Polokwane) he sent Christ Church their first rector, A. Weinstein, in 1895. Christ Church became a centre of mission work into the northern region of the Anglican Diocese of Pretoria. At some point he had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).

Works
  • Six Years in the Transvaal: Notes of the Founding of the Church There. Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Young. 1886.
  • Notes for Catechising

Family

Bousfield married, in 1861, Charlotte Elizabeth Higginson, daughter of Jonathan Higginson, of Rock Ferry, Liverpool. She died in 1886, and he remarried, in 1888, Ellen Lamb, daughter of Thomas Lamb, of Andover.[9]

Notes
  1. The Times, Monday, Jul 05, 1858; pg. 5; Issue 22890; col B University Intelligence. Cambridge, July 3
  2. Wits Papers
  3. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  4. "Bousfield, Henry Brougham (BSFT851HB)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889"
  6. "Preferments and Appointments". Oxford Times. 14 May 1870. Retrieved 17 September 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. Buckland, Augustus Robert (1912). "Bousfield, Henry Brougham" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  8. "Andover, Sept. 26". Hampshire Advertiser. 26 September 1877. p. 3 col E. Retrieved 17 September 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. The Times, Tuesday, Feb 11, 1902; pg. 10; Issue 36688; col E Obituary - The Bishop Of Pretoria
  10. "Death of Bishop of Pretoria". Evening Telegraph. 12 February 1902. p. 4 col D. Retrieved 17 September 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.

Portraits of Henry Brougham Bousfield at the National Portrait Gallery, London

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