The Rt Rev Wilfrid Bird Hornby was an Anglican Colonial

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 Bishop

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 at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
Born on 25 February 1851 and educated at Marlborough

Marlborough College

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 and Brasenose College, Oxford

Brasenose College, Oxford

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 he was ordained in 1876. In 1880 he went on the Oxford Mission to Calcutta, returning in 1884. From 1885 to 1992 he was Vicar

Vicar

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 of St Columba’s, Southwick, Sunderland when he was elevated to the Episcopate as Bishop

Bishop

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 of Nyasaland

Nyasaland

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. After only two years he returned to England

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 where he was Rector

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 of St Clements, Norwich

Norwich

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 then Vicar

Vicar

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 of Chollerton

Chollerton

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. In 1904 he was appointed Bishop of Nassau

Bishop of Nassau

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, a post he held until 1919. He died on 5 June 1935.