John Walmsley (14 October 1867, in Hereford – 9 December 1922, in Freetown)'Deaths' The Times Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1922 Issue 43213 p.1 was an English Anglican missionary bishop for the Anglican Diocese of Sierra Leone in the early twentieth century, from 1910 to his death in 1922.Project Canterbury
Walmsley was the son of George Walmsley, of Hereford. He was educated in Hereford, and at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was Somerset Scholar, and Senior Hall Greek Testament Prizeman."Death of the Bishop of Sierra Leone," Gloucester Citizen (11 December 1922), p. 4. He was made deacon in 1890, and ordained priest in the Church of England by the Bishop of Exeter in 1891.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p1485: London; Horace Cox; 1908 After a curacy at Stokenham he was Vice-Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford from 1894 to 1898.Derby Daily Telegraph (Thursday, 3 February 1898), p. 2. He held incumbencies at St Giles, Normanton-by-Derby and St Ann, Nottingham.
Walmsley served as Bishop of Sierra Leone from 1910 until his death of Blackwater fever, in a nursing home in Freetown in 1922."Death of the Bishop of Sierra Leone," Gloucester Citizen (11 December 1922), p. 4.
References
External links Anglican History website John Walmsley Ninth Bishop of Sierra Leone: A Memoir for his Friends, arranged by E. G. Walmsley (1923) (online copy)