James Nash (bishop)
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James Okey Nash[1] (1862–1943) was the Anglican Coadjutor Bishop of Cape Town from 1917 until 1930.[2]
Nash was educated at King William's College, Isle of Man; Hertford College, Oxford and Ripon College Cuddesdon.[3] He was ordained in 1888.[4] After a curacy at St Andrews, Bethnal Green[5] he was at Pusey House, Oxford from 1889 to 1892. He was one of original members of the Community of the Resurrection, Mirfield. He was Vicar of Radley from 1895[6] to 1898. He emigrated to South Africa in 1902 to be Chaplain to the Bishop of Pretoria; and after that was Headmaster of St. John's College, Johannesburg[7] from 1906 to 1917.
He died on 7 April 1943.[8]
