William Perrin (bishop)

William Willcox Perrin was an Anglican bishop in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Perrin was born at Westbury-on-Trym, Somersetshire, on 11 August 1848 and educated at both King's College London and Trinity College, Oxford.[1][2] Ordained in 1870, he began his ministry with a curacy at St Mary's Southampton and was then vicar of St Luke's in the same city before his ordination to the episcopate as the Bishop of British Columbia. He was later translated to be the Bishop of Willesden. During this period he was also the rector of St Andrew Undershaft.[2] A noted Freemason[3] He died on 27 June 1934[4] and is buried in the churchyard of St John-at-Hampstead Church, London.[5] His sister Edith was a prominent social reformer.[6]

Perrin unveiled and dedicated the Hampstead War Memorial in May 1922.[7]

References

1. "British Columbia To Lose Noted Bishop". The Calgary Herald. Canadian Associated Press. 9 August 1911. p. 11.
2. "Perrin, William Willcox". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
3. Anonymous (January 2003). Representative British Freemasons. Publishing. pp. 109–. ISBN 978-0-7661-3589-5.
4. "Obituary- Bishop Perrin, Columbia And Willesden". The Times (46792). London. 28 June 1934. col A.
5. William Willcox Perrin at Find a Grave
6. Hale, Linda L. (1994), "PERRIN, EDITH", Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, vol. 13, retrieved 21 October 2019
7. Historic England, "Hampstead War Memorial (1423688)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 27 June 2017

Church of England titles
Preceded by George Hills	Bishop of British Columbia 1893–1911	Succeeded by John Charles Roper
Preceded by Inaugural appointment	Bishop of Willesden 1911–1935	Succeeded by Guy Vernon Smith