- Thomas Nettleship Staley
Right Rev. Thomas Nettleship Staley MA, DD (1823- 1898) born in
Yorkshire ,England , was a Britishpriest of theChurch of England and later the AnglicanBishop of theChurch of Hawaii .Staley was a Fellow of
Queens' College, Cambridge . He wasTutor and Principal of St Mark's College, Chelsea, and then Principal of the Collegiate School,Wandsworth . [http://www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com/dby/kelly/croxall.htm] He served as the Church's first bishop ofHonolulu inHawaii , having been selected by Archbishop Sumner in 1861, at the suggestion of Queen Victoria. He and his wife, Catherine W. Shirley Staley, arrived in Honolulu in October, 1862, a few weeks after the death of Albert, Prince of Hawaii, the only son of King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma Kaleleonalani Naokinaea.As bishop, Staley was appointed to the island's Privy Council and Board of Education, and began two church-operated boarding schools. [http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/hi/keepers/koc54.txt] He also helped to establish the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew and Royal Mausoleum in Honolulu.
He corresponded with
Charles Darwin . [http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/search-results?sort=date-ascending&documenttype=Correspondence&pageno=238&manuscript=true&pagesize=50]Staley was appointed
Chaplain of Hawaii's Most Noble Order ofKamehameha . He retired in 1870.Publications
Five Years' Church Work in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Rivington, London (1868).
References
* [http://anglicanhistory.org/hawaii/staley1868/ Five Years' Church Work in the Kingdom of Hawaii] , by Thomas Nettleship Staley (1868)
* [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=P26957 Staley in the National Archives]
* [http://anglicanhistory.org/hawaii/staley_sermons1863.html Two sermons by Staley]
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