Cecil Wilson (bishop of Bunbury)

Cecil Wilson (9 September 1860 – 20 January 1941) was an English county cricketer and Anglican bishop. He was born in Canonbury; died in Perth, Western Australia.[1] He was the third missionary Anglican Bishop of Melanesia from 1894 to 1911,[2] and subsequently, the second Bishop of Bunbury from 1918 to 1937.

For the Bishop of Middleton, see Cecil Wilson (bishop of Middleton).

Educated at Tonbridge School, Wilson went up to Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating in Divinity in 1882.[3] He was an English first-class cricketer who played for Kent from 1882 to 1890; he was awarded his county cap in 1882. In one match he scored 50 in each innings against the touring Australian Eleven.[4]

Wilson served parishes in England before his consecration. He launched the fifth Southern Cross mission ship in 1903,[2] and advocated for the movement of the centre of Anglican life in Melanesia to the Solomon Islands from Norfolk Island.

Unwilling, however, to himself move to the Solomons, in 1911 he was appointed rector of St Andrew's Church, Walkerville and Archdeacon of Adelaide, South Australia,[5] which posts he held until his Bunbury appointment in 1918.

Wilson is listed in the Calendar of Saints of the Church of the Province of Melanesia.

Publications
  • Wilson, Cecil (1932). The Wake of the Southern Cross: Work and Adventure in the South Seas. London: John Murray.

References
  1. Cecil Wilson at CricketArchive
  2. Lawrence, David Russell (October 2014). "Chapter 5 Liberalism, Imperialism and colonial expansion" (PDF). The Naturalist and his "Beautiful Islands": Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific. ANU Press. pp. 144–145. ISBN 9781925022032.
  3. "Wilson, Cecil (WL879C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. "Bishop Wilson". Quorn Mercury. South Australia. 4 November 1913. p. 1. Retrieved 18 April 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "Appointment of Dr Wilson". The Chronicle (Adelaide). LIII (2, 745). South Australia. 1 April 1911. p. 38. Retrieved 18 April 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
John Selwyn		 Bishop of Melanesia
1894–1911		 Succeeded by
Cecil Wood
Preceded by
Frederick Goldsmith		 Bishop of Bunbury
1917–1937		 Succeeded by
Leslie Knight
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