Alston May

Last updated
Alston May, Second Bishop of Northern Rhodesia (1914-1940) Alston James Weller May (1869-1940).jpg
Alston May, Second Bishop of Northern Rhodesia (1914-1940)

Alston James Weller May was an Anglican bishop [1] in the first half of the 20th century. [2]

He was born in 1869 [3] and educated at Leeds Grammar School [4] and Oriel College, Oxford . After a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon he was ordained in 1894. [5] His first posts were curacies at All Souls, Leeds and St Mark, Portsmouth following which he was Curate in Charge of St Peter's, Chertsey. [6] In 1914 he was appointed the 2nd Bishop of Northern Rhodesia, [7] a post he held until his death on 17 July 1940. [8]

Notes

  1. National Archives
  2. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) . London: The Field Press. p. 1261.
  3. “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN   0-7136-3457-X
  4. The Times, Friday, March 23, 1888; pg. 5; Issue 32341; col E University Intelligence Election of scholars
  5. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  6. Parish web-site
  7. "Former Bishops". Archived from the original on 2005-12-25. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
  8. The Times, Tuesday, July 23, 1940; pg. 7; Issue 48675; col F Obituary The Bishop of Northern Rhodesia
Religious titles
Preceded by
John Hine
Bishop of Northern Rhodesia
19141940
Succeeded by
Robert Selby Taylor


Related Research Articles

Linton Smith

Martin Linton Smith, was an Anglican bishop who served in three dioceses during the first half of the twentieth century.

Lionel Payne Crawfurd (1864–1934) was the second Suffragan Bishop of Stafford.

Edgar Gibson

Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson was the 31st Bishop of Gloucester. He was born into a clerical family. His father was a clergyman and his son Theodore Sumner Gibson was a long serving Bishop in two South African Dioceses. He was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Oxford. Ordained in 1872, his first post was as Chaplain at Wells Theological College, rising to Vice Principal in 1875. His next post was as principal of Leeds Clergy School and he later became Rural Dean of the area and Vicar of Leeds Parish Church.

Campbell West-Watson

Campbell West-Watson was successively an Anglican suffragan bishop, diocesan bishop and archbishop over a 40-year period during the first half of the 20th century.

William James Hughes was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.

Frederic Sumpter Guy Warman was an Anglican bishop who held three separate episcopal appointments between 1919 and 1947.

John Hugh Granville Randolph was the Bishop of Guildford and then Dean of Salisbury in the Church of England in the first decades of the 20th century.

Wilfred Marcus Askwith was the 2nd Bishop of Blackburn who was later translated to Gloucester. Born in Hereford and educated at Bedford School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge he was ordained in 1914. His first post was as Curate at St Helens Parish Church. After this he was a Master and Assistant Chaplain at his old school then Rector of Stalbridge. From 1925 to 1932 he was Chaplain to Europeans at Nakuru in Kenya. Returning to England he was Vicar of Sherborne then Rural Dean of Leeds before his elevation to the Episcopate. He died on 16 July 1962.

Eric Joseph Trapp was an Anglican bishop in the mid-20th century.

Robert Selby Taylor was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.

Frederic Hicks Beaven was bishop of Mashonaland from 1911, through 1915 when his title was changed to bishop of Southern Rhodesia, until his retirement in 1925.

Edmund Nathanael Powell was Bishop of Mashonaland from 1908 to 1910.

Ronald Stanhope More O’Ferrall was the fourth Anglican Bishop of Madagascar from 1926 until 1940.

George Frodsham

George Horsfall Frodsham (1863–1937) was an English-born Anglican priest. From 1902 to 1913 he was the Bishop of North Queensland in Australia.

William Carter (bishop)

The Most Reverend William Marlborough Carter, (1850–1941) was an Anglican bishop and archbishop in South Africa.

The Rt Rev Frederick Samuel Baines, DD was an Anglican bishop in the first third of the 20th century.

Gerard Heath Lander was an Anglican bishop.

Charles Benjamim Dowse was the Bishop of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh who soon after his consecration in June 1912 was translated to Cork.

The Rt Rev Lennox Waldron Williams, DD was an eminent Anglican priest, the sixth Bishop of Quebec.
Born into an eminent ecclesiastical family and educated at St John’s College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1885. His first post was a curacy at St Matthew’s, Quebec after which he was successively Rector, Rural Dean, Dean of Montreal and finally, in 1915, Bishop of Quebec- resigning in 1935.

Francis Lushington Norris was an Anglican missionary bishop.