The Right Reverend John Reginald Weller (6 October 1880 – 26 October 1969)Obituary. The Times (London, England), Thursday, Oct 30, 1969; pg. 12; Issue 57704 was an Anglican priest. He was the Bishop of the Falkland Islands from 1934 to 1937,Falklands.info and of Argentina and Eastern South AmericaNational Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives from 1937 to 1946.
He was educated at Bedford School and Selwyn College, Cambridge;‘WELLER, Rt Rev. John Reginald’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 31 Aug 2012 and, after an earlier career as a tea planter, was ordained in 1914. He served in Delhi, Waziristan, Mesopotamia and Quetta (after 1917 as a military chaplainLondon Gazette). He was the Superintendent of the Missions to Seamen in Melbourne and then MerseysideCrockford's Clerical Directory London, OUP, 1948 before his elevation to the episcopate.New Bishop Of Falkland Islands.Mersey Seamen’s Chaplain The Times (London, England), Wednesday, May 16, 1934; pg. 16; Issue 46755. Returning to England, he was assistant bishop of Southwell (1946–1952), Vicar of Edwalton (1946–1949) and Rector of Holme Pierrepont (1951–1958).
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