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George Bishop (priest)

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George Nickells Bishop (1852–1939)[1] was an Anglican priest in the first two decades of the nineteenth century and the first four of the twentieth.[2]

Bishop was born in Newton Abbot and later emigrated to Australia. He was ordained deacon in 1880, and priest in 1881. After a curacy at Geelong he held incumbencies in Melbourne and Kyneton, where he was also Archdeacon from 1915 to 1918. His last post was as Chaplain at Melbourne Hospital.

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