Bishop of Brisbane

Bishop of Brisbane

Queen Victoria created the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane, and appointed the Right Reverend Edward Wyndham Tufnell (1814- 1896) as the first Bishop. He designated St Johns in Brisbane as the pro-Cathedral. The The central stained glass windows in the apse, the Crucifixion, at St Mary's church was donated by Bishop Tufnell

Edward was born in Bath educated at Eton and Oxford, ordained a priest in 1839. He was the son of John Charles Tufnell and Uliana Margaret Fowell, he married his cousin Laura Tufnell

He returned to England in 1874. In 1882 he became the vicar at Felpham near Bognor Regis, in 1888 he paid for the school to move to a new site in Felpham Way and the Bishop Tufnell school is named after him (the school moved again in 1957) the Rectors Vestry at St Mary's church was erected in 1899 as a memorial to Edward

It being Australia, Bishop Tufnell had a very large parish which took him about a year to round. His hobby was collecting parrots, which he was very fond of but, in view of the travelling nature of his job, he had to have them killed and stuffed. Gross. Not a very good name for a school with Primary age children then!


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