Henry Sidwell
Deceased Person
1857 – 1936
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Who was Henry Sidwell?
The Rt Rev Henry Bindley Sidwell was the inaugural Bishop of George, the first South African-born Bishop to head a diocese.
He was born in Grahamstown and educated at the University of the Cape of Good Hope. Ordained in 1889 he began his career with a curacy in Johannesburg after which he was Rector of Middleburg and then Archdeacon of Pretoria before his elevation to the Episcopate. He died in post on 31 August 1936.
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