Researching William Sedgwick
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2174 people with the Sedgwick surname? In that year Sedgwick was ranked number 1732 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
Records of William Sedgwick on Ancestry
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William Sedgwick (bishop)
The Rt Rev William Walmsley Sedgwick (1858–1948) was the 5th Anglican Bishop of Waiapu whose Episcopate spanned a 15-year period during the first half of the 20th century.
Born at Freemantle in Southampton, 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. He was ordained as a deacon at Dover in 1882, and as a priest at Canterbury in 1883. He embarked on his career with a curacy at St. John The Baptist, Wateringbury.
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. 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.
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.
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, 1931–32. From 1938 until his death in 1948 he was licensed to officiate in the Diocese of Grahamstown.
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