Archibald Fleming

Who was Archibald Fleming?

The Rt Rev. Archibald Lang Fleming, DD, FRGS was the inaugural Bishop of The Arctic from 1933 to 1949.

Born on 8 September 1883 and educated at Greenock Academy and Glasgow University he was in the drawing office at John Brown & Co, a shipyard in Clydebank, until 1906 when he went to Canada to prepare for missionary work at Wycliffe College. Ordained in 1912 he was a missionary in Baffinland until 1916. Later he was Chaplain of his old theological college then Rector of Saint John, New Brunswick. He was Archdeacon of The Arctic from 1927 to his elevation to the Episcopate. A noted author, he died on 17 May 1953