John Feetham

The Rt. Revd. John Oliver Feetham (1873-1947), Anglican Bishop of North Queensland from 1913 to 1947. John Oliver Feetham (28 January 1873 – 14 September 1947) was a long-serving Anglican bishop in Australia, who was aligned with the Anglo-Catholic tradition. He was the Anglican Bishop of North Queensland from 1913 until his death in 1947. He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Religious life Feetham was ordained in 1899. After a curacy at St Simon Zelotes, Bethnal Green, he was Principal of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd (one of the Australian Bush Brotherhoods). In 1913 he was ordained to the episcopate as the fourth Bishop of North Queensland.

Feetham established a number of Anglican schools in North Queensland:

Later life Feetham died on 14 September 1947 and his ashes were interred beneath the high altar at St James' Cathedral, Townsville.

Feetham is commemorated in the Australian Anglican calendar on 15 September.