John Oliver Feetham was a long serving Anglo Catholic  Bishop

Bishop

A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

 in the first half of the 20th century.

Born into an ecclesiastical family - his father was the Reverend William Feetham, Rural Dean

Rural Dean

In the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church, a Rural Dean presides over a Rural Deanery .-Origins and usage:...

 of Raglan, Monmouthshire

Raglan, Monmouthshire

Raglan is a village in Monmouthshire, south east Wales, United Kingdom. It is located some 9 miles south-west of Monmouth, midway between Monmouth and Abergavenny on the A40 road very near to the junction with the A449 road...

 and his mother the daughter of an Archdeacon

Archdeacon

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 - he was educated at Marlborough

Marlborough College

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 and Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Trinity Hall, Cambridge

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. and ordained in 1899. After a curacy at St Simon Zelotes, Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green

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, he was Principal of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd. In 1913 he was ordained to the episcopate as the fourth Bishop of North Queensland

Anglican Diocese of North Queensland

The Anglican Diocese of North Queensland, in Australia, extends from Sarina in central Queensland to the Torres Strait Islands in the north and Mount Isa in the west. The cathedral church of the diocese is the Cathedral of St James, Townsville. The current Bishop of North Queensland is the Right...

. He died on 14 September 1947 and his ashes are interred beneath the high altar at St James' Cathedral Townsville.