Francis Thomas McDougall (1817-16 November 1886 ) was the first Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak

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 from 1849 to 1868.

MacDougall was born in Sydenham

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 and educated at King’s College London and Magdalen College, Oxford

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. While at Oxford, rowed in the winnning Oxford

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 eight

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 in the 1842 Boat Race.

MacDougall travelled to Borneo

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 in 1845 and was appointed the first Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak in 1849. Returning to England

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 in 1868 he was appointed Vicar

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 of Godmanchester

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. Later he was Archdeacon of Huntingdon and then of the Isle of Wight

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