Consecration of the New Colonial Bishops. — Westminster Abbey

Consecration of the New Colonial Bishops. — Westminster Abbey. Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

The five colonial territories thus acquiring bishops included Barbardoes, Guiana, Antigua, Malta/Gibraltar, and Van Diemen's land [an Australian colony to which Victorian novelists were in the habit of consigning near-do-well characters and scape-graces].

References

"Consecration of the New Colonial Bishops." Illustrated London News. (27 August 1842): 249.


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