- Charles Hamilton (bishop)
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Charles Hamilton was the first Anglican Bishop of Ottawa, Ontario. He was a Canadian Anglican bishop in the last decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th.[1]
Hamilton was born in 1834 and educated at University College, Oxford. He was a curate of Quebec cathedral and then incumbent of St Peter's Church in the same city. In 1884 he became the Bishop of Niagara.[2] He was translated to become the Bishop of Ottawa in 1896 and was additionally elected as the Metropolitan of Canada in 1909 and then of Ontario in 1912. He died in 1919.[3]
Family
Charles Hamilton and his wife, Frances Louisa Hume Thomson had three daughters. Miss Ethel Mary Hamilton, who was born and educated in Quebec, accompanied her parents on her father's election to the bishopric of the Ottawa, Ontario diocese in 1896. The family lived in Bishopscourt in Ottawa. On May Day, 1898, at Government House, Miss Ethel Mary Hamilton was elected and crowned "May Queen." She presided over the May Court Club, which had been established by their Excellencies the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen from 1896 until 1900. [4]
Church of England titles Preceded by
Thomas Brock FullerBishop of Niagara
1884 –1896Succeeded by
John Philip Du MoulinPreceded by
Inaugural appointmentBishop of Ottawa
1896 –1914Succeeded by
John Charles RoperPreceded by
Arthur SweatmanMetropolitan of Canada
1909 –1912Succeeded by
Clarendon Lamb WorrellPreceded by
Inaugural appointmentMetropolitan of Ontario
1912 –1914Succeeded by
George ThorneloeReferences
- ^ Anglican Bishops of Ottawa
- ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
- ^ The Times, 5 March 1919; pg. 1; Issue 42040; col A Deaths
- ^ Morgan, Henry James Types of Canadian women and of women who are or have been connected with Canada : (Toronto, 1903) [1]
Bishops of Niagara Thomas Brock Fuller • Charles Hamilton • John Philip Du Moulin • William Reid Clark • Derwyn Trevor Owen • Lewis Wilmot Bovell Broughall • Walter Edward Bagnall • John Charles Bothwell • Walter Gordon Asbil • David Ralph Spence • Michael Bird •
Anglican bishops of Ottawa Charles Hamilton • John Charles Roper • Robert Jefferson • Ernest Samuel Reed • William James Robinson • Edwin Keith Lackey • John Arthur Baycroft • Peter Robert Coffin • John Holland Chapman •
Metropolitans of Canada Francis Fulford • Ashton Oxenden • John Medley • John Travers Lewis • William Bennett Bond • Arthur Sweatman • Charles Hamilton • Clarendon Lamb Worrell • John Andrew Richardson • John Hackenley • Philip Carrington • John Harkness Dixon • Alexander Henry O'Neil • William Wallace Davis • Robert Lowder Seaborn • Harold Lee Nutter • Reginald Hollis • Sidney Stewart Payne • Arthur Gordon Peters • Alexander Bruce Stavert • Claude Weston Miller
Metropolitans of Ontario Charles Hamilton • George Thorneloe • David Williams • James Fielding Sweeny • John Charles Roper • John George Anderson • Charles Allen Seager • John Lyons • Robert John Renison • William Lockridge Wright • James Augustus Watton • Lewis Samuel Garnsworthy • John Charles Bothwell • Edwin Keith Lackey • Percival Richard O'Driscoll • Terence Finlay • Caleb James Lawrence • Colin Johnson
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