John Walmsley (bishop)
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John Walmsley (14 October 1867, in Hereford – 9 December 1922, in Freetown)[1] was an English Anglican missionary bishop for the Anglican Diocese of Sierra Leone in the early twentieth century, from 1910 to his death in 1922.[2]
Walmsley was the son of George Walmsley, of Hereford. He was educated in Hereford, and at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was Somerset Scholar, and Senior Hall Greek Testament Prizeman.[3][4] He was made deacon in 1890, and ordained priest in the Church of England by the Bishop of Exeter in 1891.[5] After a curacy at Stokenham he was Vice-Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford from 1894 to 1898.[6][7] He held incumbencies at St Giles, Normanton-by-Derby and St Ann, Nottingham.[8]
Walmsley served as Bishop of Sierra Leone from 1910 until his death of Blackwater fever, in a nursing home in Freetown in 1922.[9][10]
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