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Wilfrid Bird Hornby was an Anglican colonial bishop at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.

Born on 25 February 1851 and educated at Marlborough and Brasenose College, Oxford he was ordained in 1876. In 1880 he went on the Oxford Mission to Calcutta, returning in 1884. From 1885 to 1892 he was Vicar of St Columba's, Southwick, Sunderland when he was elevated to the episcopate as Bishop of Nyasaland. After only two years he returned to England, where he was Rector of St Clement's Church, Norwich then Vicar of Chollerton. In 1904 he was appointed Bishop of Nassau, a post he held until 1919. He died on 5 June 1935.

Notes

Project Canterbury
IGI record
Who was Who 1987–1990: London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
"The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
Mission history
Photo of church
The Times, Thursday, 22 December 1892; p. 7; Issue 33828; col A Ecclesiastical Intelligence
Church details
Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 737.
Deaths The Times, Friday, 7 June 1935; p. 1; Issue 47084; col A

Religious titles
Preceded byCharles Smythiesas Bishop in Central Africa	Bishop of Nyasaland 1892 –1894	Succeeded byChauncy Maplesas Bishop of Likoma
Preceded byHenry Norris Churton	Bishop of Nassau 1904 –1919	Succeeded byRoscow George Shedden

v t e Bishops in Central Africa, Nyasaland, Likoma, Northern Malawi, Southern Malawi, Lake Malawi and Upper Shire
Central Africa	Charles Mackenzie William Tozer Edward Steere Charles Smythies (diocese split)
Likoma	Wilfrid Hornby, Bishop of Nyasaland Chauncy Maples John Hine Gerard Trower (title changed)
Nyasaland	Gerard Trower Cathrew Fisher Gerald Douglas Frank Thorne Donald Arden (title changed to Malawi; later, diocese split)
Southern Malawi	Donald Arden Dunstan Ainani Nathaniel Aipa James Tangatenga Alinafe Kalemba
Lake Malawi	Francis Kaulandai
Northern Malawi	Fanuel Magangani
Upper Shire	Brighton Vitta Malasa

v t e Bishops of Nassau
Anglican bishops of Nassau	Charles Caulfield Addington Venables Francis Cramer-Roberts Edward Churton Henry Churton Wilfrid Hornby Roscow Shedden John Dauglish
Bishops of Nassau & The Bahamas	Spence Burton Bernard Markham Michael Eldon Drexel Gomez Laish Boyd

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