Arthur Pain
Arthur Wellesley Pain (21 August 1841 – 14 May 1920) was an Anglican bishop and the first Bishop of Gippsland from 1902 until 1917.[1]
Born in Felmersham and educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge,[2] he was ordained in 1866.[3] He began his career as curate of Holbrook, Suffolk before emigrating to Australia two years later as incumbent of Cobbitty, New South Wales.[4] His next appointment was as Vicar of Narellan, NSW then Rural Dean of Camden. In 1883 he was appointed rector of St. John´s, Darlinghurst, in East Sydney, and in 1893 chaplain to Saumarez Smith, Bishop of Sydney. From 1897 he was canon of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney.[5]
It was announced in April 1902 that Pain would be appointed the first Bishop of Gippsland,[5] and his ordination to the episcopate came when he was consecrated the following month.[6][7]
Notes
- ^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
- ^ "Pain, Arthur Wellesley (PN862AW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
- ^ “In the Master's service for 52 years in Australia, Arthur Wellesley Pain”, Pain, A.F: NSW, Belrose, 1981, ISBN 0-9593239-0-2
- ^ a b "Ecclesiastical intelligence". The Times. No. 36751. London. 25 April 1902. p. 9. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
- ^ Diocese of Gippsland web site
- ^ The Times, 21 May 1902; p8; "Ecclesiastical Intelligence: Consecration of the first Bishop of Gippsland"