William Walmsley Sedgwick
Bishop of Waiapu
ProvinceEast Coast, New Zealand
DioceseAnglican Diocese of Waiapu
Installed22 February 1914
PredecessorAlfred Averill
Personal details
Born
William Walmsley Sedgwick

1858
Died3 May 1948(1948-05-03) (aged 89)
DenominationAnglicanism
SpouseMargarita Helen Sedgwick
Alma materChrist's College, Cambridge

The Rt Rev William Walmsley Sedgwick (1858–1948[1]) was the 5th Anglican Bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand, whose Episcopate spanned a 15-year period during the first half of the 20th century.

Born at Freemantle in Southampton,[2] England, he was educated at St Martin's, York and matriculated in 1879. He attended Christ's College, Cambridge and graduated in 1882 with a B.A.[3][4] He was ordained as a deacon at Dover in 1882, and as a priest at Canterbury in 1883.[5] He embarked on his career with a curacy at St. John The Baptist, Wateringbury.[6]

He was a Naval Chaplain from 1884 to 1886; he took part in the Suakin Expedition, 1884–85; and served as Chaplain on H.M.S. Thunderer in the Mediterranean Fleet, 1885–86.[7] He held incumbencies at Hockley Heath in the West Midlands, England, 1886–89; Vryburg, British Bechuanaland, 1889–93; Bedford, Eastern Cape, 1893–96; Evershot, Dorset, 1897–98; and he became the chaplain to the Earl of Home, 1897–1900.[8][9]

He emigrated to New Zealand and was appoint as the vicar of Waikari, 1901–03; vicar of Akaroa, 1903–04; vicar of St Luke's Church, Christchurch, 1904–14; canon of ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch, 1911–14; and chaplain to the Bishop of Christchurch, 1914.[10]

On 22 February 1914 he became the Bishop of Waiapu. He retired as bishop in 1929. His last post was as Vicar of Detling, Kent, England, 1931–32.[11] From 1938 until his death in 1948 he was licensed to officiate in the Diocese of Grahamstown, Makhanda, South Africa.[12]

Notes

  1. NZetc
  2. British Sedgwick Genealogy
  3. "Sedgwick, William Walmsley (SGWK878WW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. University Intelligence. Cambridge, 15 Dec. The Times Friday, 16 December 1881; pg. 4; Issue 30379; col D
  5. The Times, Tuesday, 26 September 1882; pg. 7; Issue 30622; col C Ordinations Canterbury
  6. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. pp. 1552/3.
  7. “Who was Who” 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  8. “Who was Who” 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  9. "Sedgwick, William Walmsley (SGWK878WW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  10. "Sedgwick, William Walmsley (SGWK878WW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  11. Crockford's Clerical Directory1940–41 Oxford, OUP,1941
  12. "Sedgwick, William Walmsley (SGWK878WW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.


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