William Lucas (bishop)
William Vincent Lucas was the inaugural Bishop of Masasi during the first half of the 20th century.[1]
Born on 20 June 1883[2] and educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and St Catherine's Society in the same city, he was ordained in 1907.[3] After a curacy at St Michael's Shepton Beauchamp he went to Tanzania as a missionary. He was later the provost and sub-dean of Masasi Collegiate Church and a canon of Zanzibar before his ordination to the episcopate. He died on 8 July 1945.[4]
References
- ^ Friends of Masasi
- ^ “Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
- ^ "The Clergy List", London, Kelly’s, 1913
- ^ The Times, 10 July 1945, p1, "Deaths"
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