Edwin James Palmer was the Bishop of Bombay

Bishop of Bombay

The Bishop of Bombay was the Ordinary of the Anglican Church in Bombay from its inception in 1837 until the foundation of the Church in India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon in 1927; and since then head of one of its most prominent Dioceses.-External links:*...

 from 1908 until 1929. He was born in 1869 into a noted family and educated at Winchester College

Winchester College

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 and Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, Oxford

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 . Ordained in 1896 he was elected a Fellow

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 of his old college

Balliol College, Oxford

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  and was Tutor

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  and Chaplain

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 there until he ascended to the Episcopate  where (according to his Times

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 obituary) he was

“moderate in opinion and accommodating in all things except where basic beliefs and principles were involved”.

A prolific author, in retirement he continued to serve the church until his death on 28 March 1954 and his extensive papers are preserved for posterity within the Lambeth Palace Library

Lambeth Palace

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