John Wills Weeks (1799–1857) was the Anglican Bishop of Sierra Leone”The book of dignities; containing lists of the official personages of the British Empire” Haydn, J.T: London, Moxon & Co, 1860 from 1855London Gazette of Friday, May 11 Morning Chronicle Saturday, May 12, 1855; Issue 27574 until his death in Sierra Leone two years later.From the London Gazette of Tuesday, Aug. 18 The Times Wednesday, Aug 19, 1857; pg. 6; Issue 22763; col A
John Wills Weeks was born in Dartmouth, Devon, in 1799 and baptised at St Petrox Church there 8 Oct 1799.https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/62250/records/1069284?tid=&pid=&queryId=8b926e96-752f-4d5e-946a-71c802b96d78&_phsrc=PIV40551&_phstart=successSourcesee census records at ancestry.co.uk A CMS missionary in Sierra Leone from 1825 to 1844 when ill-health caused his return to England, he became incumbent of St Thomas's Church and headmaster of Cranbrook School, Lambeth until his appointment to the episcopate. He became a Doctor of Divinity (DD).“Registrum sacrum Anglicanum: an attempt to exhibit the course of episcopal succession in England; from the records and chronicles of the church” Stubbs, W: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1858
On 7 December 1826, Weeks married his first wife Anna Pope, née Haynes, widow of John Pope, a missionary who died after only 6 months of service in Sierra Leone. She predeceased him 10 January 1839. His second wife Phoebe Graham, née Davey, née Goodwin, from Bungay in Suffolk, widow of Henry Graham, died in 1866 and was buried in West Norwood.ancestry.co.uk
Weeks died on March 25, 1857.Internet Archive, Sierra Leone: After A Hundred Years, by the Right Rev E. G. Ingham (1894), page 202 His papers are held at the University of Birmingham.National Archives website, Weeks, John Wills
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