Henry Pereira
Henry Horace Pereira (16 January 1845 – 1 January 1926) was an Anglican suffragan bishop during the first quarter of the 20th century.
Pereira was born in 1845,[1] educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1869.[2] He served two curacies[3] before becoming the first Warden of the Wilberforce Memorial Mission in South London. Hampshire incumbencies[4] followed before a 30-year association with the Croydon area (which was then a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury, firstly as Rural Dean and (from 1904) Bishop of Croydon, suffragan bishop to the Archbishop. He was consecrated a bishop on the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul 1904 (25 January), at Westminster Abbey by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury.[5] As an endowment, he was also appointed to All Hallows Lombard Street in the same year;[6] when he resigned his See in 1924,[7] he retained the benefice of Lombard-Street until death.[1]
He was Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, and an Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria from January 1900 until her death the following year.[8]
"A man of great energy and a most effective speaker",[9] he died on New Year’s Day, 1926.
References
- ^ a b Pereira. "Pereira, Henry Horace". Who's Who & Who Was Who (2007 online ed.). A & C Black.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Unknown parameter|accessed=ignored (help); Unknown parameter|othernames=ignored (help) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) - ^ The Times, Thursday, 23 December 1869; pg. 4; Issue 26628; col E Ordinations
- ^ at Eston and Southampton "Who's Who (ibid)
- ^ Again Southampton; and Chilbolton "Who's Who (ibid)
- ^ "Consecration of bishops". Church Times. No. 2140. 29 January 1904. p. 131. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 20 September 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ "A new suffragan bishop for Canterbury". Church Times. No. 2138. 15 January 1904. p. 67. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 20 September 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ "Dr H. H. Pereira". Church Times. No. 3285. 8 January 1926. p. 36. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 20 September 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ "No. 27157". The London Gazette. 26 January 1900. p. 512.
- ^ The Times, Thursday,2 January 1926; pg. 14; Issue 38184; col A Death of the Bishop of Croydon
