The Most Rev Edward Francis Paget was an eminent Anglican Bishop

Bishop

A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

 in the middle part of the 20th century. He was born in 1886 into a clerical family, educated at Shrewsbury School

Shrewsbury School

Shrewsbury School is a co-educational independent school for pupils aged 13 to 18, founded by Royal Charter in 1552. The present campus to which the school moved in 1882 is located on the banks of the River Severn in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England...

 and Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church, Oxford

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, and ordained in 1911. His first post was as a Curate

Curate

A curate is a person who is invested with the care or cure of souls of a parish. In this sense "curate" correctly means a parish priest but in English-speaking countries a curate is an assistant to the parish priest...

 at St Frideswide's, Poplar

Poplar, London

Poplar is a historic, mainly residential area of the East End of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is about east of Charing Cross. Historically a hamlet in the parish of Stepney, Middlesex, in 1817 Poplar became a civil parish. In 1855 the Poplar District of the Metropolis was...

 after which he emigrated to Southern Africa. Initially Vicar

Vicar

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 of Benoni

Benoni, Gauteng

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  he was elevated to the Episcopate as the 5th Bishop of Southern Rhodesia

Anglican Diocese of Mashonaland

The Anglican Diocese of Mashonaland was formed in 1891 and its first Bishop was The Rt Rev George Wyndham Hamilton Knight-Bruce. He was succeeded by the Rt Revd William Thomas Gaul , formerly Rector of St Cyprian's Church in Kimberley...

 in 1925. After thirty years he was additionally elected the inaugural Archbishop of Central Africa. He retired to Gillits

Gillitts, KwaZulu-Natal

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in 1957 and died on 21 April 1971.