Edward Wyndham Tufnell (3 October 1814 – 3 December 1896) was an Anglican priest. He was the first Anglican Bishop of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia.Queensland Consolidated Acts . Austlii.edu.au. Retrieved on 26 August 2011.
Early life Tufnell was born on 3 October 1814 in Bath, Somerset"A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank" Burke, J: London, Henry Colburn, 1838 and educated at Eton and Wadham College, Oxford."The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889 He was the son of a banker, John Charles Tufnell, and Uliana Ivanova Margaret Fowell, who had a total of eighteen children.
Ecclesiastical career Ordained a priest in 1839, his first posts were curacies at Broadwindsor and Broad Hinton.ADB on line . Trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved on 26 August 2011. After this he held incumbencies at BeechingstokeBritish history on-line . British-history.ac.uk (3 March 1972). Retrieved on 26 August 2011. and Marlborough.Project Canterbury . Anglicanhistory.org. Retrieved on 26 August 2011.
He served as Anglican Bishop of Brisbane from 1859 to 1874."Bishop Tufnell and Queensland education, 1860–1874" Lawry, J.R: Melbourne, Monash University, 1966
While in Brisbane in 1863, Edward Tufnell commissioned architect Benjamin Backhouse to build the house Riversleigh on North Quay as an investment.
Tufnell returned to England in 1874. In 1882 he became the vicar of Felpham near Bognor Regis and in 1888 he paid for the school to move to a new site in Felpham Way. The school is still named after him,School web-site . Bishoptufnell.w-sussex.sch.uk. Retrieved on 26 August 2011. but moved again in 1957. The rector's vestry at St Mary's ChurchChurch website . Stmarys-felpham.co.uk. Retrieved on 26 August 2011. was erected in 1899 as a memorial to him.
Marriage and family Tufnell married his cousin, Laura Tufnell, who was the daughter of John Jolliffe Tufnell of Langleys, Great Waltham, Essex. They had two children: Arthur Wyndam Tufnell, who was murdered in India while travelling on a train to Simla; and Ida Mary Uliana Mary Tufnell, who married Henry Arthur Wansbrough, a priest. Ida was the grandmother of the Benedictine monk and scholar, Dom Henry Wansbrough.Borthwick, Julian, "In a Few Words – Henry Wansbrough OSB: Monk, Scholar and Wordsmith", pp 290-292, at p 290, in McCosker, Philip, What is it that the Scripture Says?: Essays in Biblical Interpretation, Translation and Reception in Honour of Henry Wansbrough OSB, (2006: Bloomsbury Publishing). Laura Tufnell was the sister of Maria Tufnell, who married Edward Strutt,The Peerage – Edward Strutt . Thepeerage.com. Retrieved on 26 August 2011. founder of Strutt & Parker estate agents. Maria was lady-in-waiting to Queen Charlotte. Tufnell died on 3 December 1896.The Times, Friday, 4 December 1896; pg. 6; Issue 35065; col D Obituary E.W. Tufnell DD
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