Thomas Earle Welby was a Bishop

Bishop

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 in the Anglican church.

Early life and education

Thomas Earle Welby was the second son of Sir William Earle Welby, the second baronet, and Wilhelmina Spry, daughter of William Spry. He was educated at Rugby School

Rugby School

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  Christ's College, Cambridge

Christ's College, Cambridge

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 before joining the army, becoming a Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 in the 13th Light Dragoons

13th Light Dragoons

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. Sold out of the army in 1837, he married Mary Browne in the same year.

Ecclesiastical career

Welby was ordained in the diocese of Toronto

Anglican Diocese of Toronto

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, and in 1842 became rector of Sandwich in Western Canada, Rector of Newton-near-Folkingham. Then Archdeacon of Georgetown, South Africa in 1856 and Bishop of St Helena

Anglican Diocese of St Helena

The Diocese of Saint Helena is an Anglican diocese within the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. It covers the islands of Saint Helena and Ascension in the Atlantic Ocean and was created in 1859. St Paul's Cathedral is on Saint Helena.-History:...

 1867 - 1899.

Source

• The Times
  The Times
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  , 17 January 1899