Frederic Hicks Beaven (11 April 1855 – 22 January 1941)"Deaths- Rt Rev F.H. Beaven" The Times Friday, Jan 24, 1941; pg. 1; Issue 48832; col A was bishop of Mashonaland from 1911,"New Bishop Of Mashonaland" The Times Friday, Nov 04, 1910; pg. 13; Issue 39421; col B through 1915 when his title was changed to bishop of Southern Rhodesia,Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975, ISBN (invalid) 0108153674, alternate version: , , . until his retirement in 1925.
Life Born in Rodwell,"On the 11th inst., at Rodwell, near Calne, the wife of Mr. Christopher Beaven, of a son." Salisbury and Winchester Journal 21 April 1855 near Calne in Wiltshire, he was the eldest son of Christopher, a farmer, and Edith ( Hicks) Beaven who lived at Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire. Frederic had three brothers, all of whom emigrated to Australia, and two sisters. He married Georgina Braithwaite Dawes in 1883 in Brighton; they did not have any children.
He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster and University College, Durham.Who was Who 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 He was ordained in 1879 after studying at St Bees Theological College. His first post was a curacy at St Martin's Church, Brighton.The Clergy List London, Hamilton & Co 1889 He then held incumbencies at All Saints', Newborough, Staffordshire (1881–85), St Chad's Church, Stafford (1885–87) and St Paul's, Burton upon Trent (1887–1901).
In the Second Boer War, he was an acting chaplain to the 2nd Battalion, the North Staffordshire Regiment, and from 1903 he was archdeacon of Matabeleland. In 1908 he became the dean of Salisbury (now Harare), his last appointment before elevation to the episcopate in 1911.“Church and Settler in Colonial Zimbabwe: A Study in the History of the Anglican Diocese of Mashonaland/Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1925, Vol. 34” Welsh, P (Ed): Boston, Brill Academic Publishing, 2008 He was consecrated Bishop in Cape Town Cathedral on New Year's Day, 1911. He was responsible for the start of construction of the Cathedral of St Mary and All Saints in Salisbury, where the choir and sanctuary were completed in 1914. In the First World War, he was chaplain general of the Rhodesian Forces. During his episcopate, in 1919, the first indigenous person in Zimbabwe, Samuel Mhlanga, was ordained to the deaconate. Beaven became a Doctor of Divinity (DD).
Retiring from his bishopric, he served as rector of Thelnetham, Suffolk, 1925–26. Subsequently he lived in Paignton, Worthing and Bognor Regis.
The National Portrait Gallery has two portrait photographs of Beaven.
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