Archibald Lang Fleming FRGS (8 September 188317 May 1953)Bishop A. L. Fleming Mission Work In The Arctic The Times Tuesday, 19 May 1953; pg. 8; Issue 52625; col E was the inaugural Bishop of The ArcticThe Times, Friday, 22 Dec 1933; pg. 9; Issue 46634; col A First Bishop of The Arctic from 1933Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975/6 Lambeth, Church House Publishing 0108153674 to 1949.
Biography Fleming was educated at Greenock Academy and the University of Glasgow. He was in the drawing office at John Brown & Co, a shipyard in Clydebank, until 1906Canadian Christians when he went to Canada to prepare for missionary work at Wycliffe College.Who was Who 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 Ordained in 1912,"The Clergy List" London, Kelly's, 1913 he was a missionary in Baffin Island until 1916. Later he was Chaplain of his old theological college then Rector of Saint John, New Brunswick. He was Archdeacon of The Arctic from 1927 to his appointment to the episcopate. He was also a noted author.Amongst others he wrote "For Us, a series of devotional addresses on the Seven Last Words", 1923; "A Book of Remembrance, a History of St John's Church, St John, NB", 1925; "Dwellers in Arctic Night", 1928; "Perils of the Polar Pack", 1932; and "Flying Beyond the Arctic Circle", 1933 > British Library web site accessed 18:27GMT Tuesday 18 May 2010
John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, the Governor General of Canada, wrote to Fleming on his appointment as Bishop: Your official signature 'Archibald the Arctic' is the most romantic signature in the world and just one point ahead of 'William of Argyll and the Isles'''. Fleming's memoir Archibald the Arctic'' was published in 1957.Fleming, Archibald the Arctic, 1957
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