About Jabez Whitley
Lived 1837 – 1904 (aged 67). Jabez Whitley was an anglican priest.
The Right Reverend Jabez Cornelius Whitley (20 January 1837 – 13 October 1904) was an Anglican author and a bishop in India from 1890 until 1904.
He was born in London on 20 January 1837 and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge and ordained in 1861. He was an SPG Missionary in Delhi and then Ranchi before his elevation to the episcopate as the inaugural Bishop of Chota Nagpur. He died on 13 October 1904.
Works Primer of the Mundari Language, 1896 Hindi Catechisms, 1897 Translation of the Didache and the Epistles of St Ignatius, 1899
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Bishop of Chota Nagpur (1837-1904)
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