John Welsh
Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago; British Anglican colonial bishop
About John Welsh
Lived 1856 – 1916 (aged 59–60). John Welsh was an anglican priest.
John Francis Welsh (1856–1916) was Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago from 1904 until his death in 1916.
He was born in Huddersfield in 1856 and educated at Christ Church, Oxford. After graduation, he was ordained in 1882 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St James, Whitehaven. From 1883 until 1886 he was a Lecturer at St Bees’ Theological College and from then (until his appointment to the episcopate) Principal of Warminster Missionary College. He became a Doctor of Divinity (DD).
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Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago; British Anglican colonial bishop
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John Welsh was born in 1856.
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John Welsh died in 1916.
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John Welsh was an anglican priest.
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