Henry Pereira

Henry Horace Pereira (16 January 1845 – 1 January 1926) was an Anglican suffragan bishop during the first quarter of the 20th century.

Henry Pereira
Bishop of Croydon
1904 photograph of Pereira
DioceseDiocese of Canterbury
In office1904–1924 (ret.)
SuccessorEdward Woods
Other post(s)Rector of All Hallows Lombard Street (1904–1926)
Orders
Ordination1869
Consecration1904
by Randall Davidson (Canterbury)
Personal details
Born(1845-01-16)16 January 1845
Died1 January 1926(1926-01-01) (aged 80)
DenominationAnglican
Alma materTrinity College, Dublin

Pereira was born in 1845,[1] educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1869.[2] He served two curacies[3] before becoming the first Warden of the Wilberforce Memorial Mission in South London. Hampshire incumbencies[4] followed before a 30-year association with the Croydon area (which was then a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury, firstly as Rural Dean and (from 1904) Bishop of Croydon, suffragan bishop to the Archbishop.[5] He was consecrated a bishop on the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul 1904 (25 January), at Westminster Abbey by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury.[6] As an endowment, he was also appointed to All Hallows Lombard Street in the same year;[7] when he resigned his See in 1924,[8] he retained the benefice of Lombard-Street until death.[1]

He was Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, and an Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria from January 1900 until her death the following year.[9]

"A man of great energy and a most effective speaker",[10] he died on New Year's Day, 1926.

References
  1. "Pereira, Henry Horace". Who's Who & Who Was Who (2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 20 September 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. The Times, Thursday, 23 December 1869; pg. 4; Issue 26628; col E Ordinations
  3. at Eston and Southampton "Who's Who (ibid)
  4. Again Southampton; and Chilbolton "Who's Who (ibid)
  5. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 339.
  6. "Consecration of bishops". Church Times. No. 2140. 29 January 1904. p. 349. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 20 September 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
  7. "A new suffragan bishop for Canterbury". Church Times. No. 2138. 15 January 1904. p. 67. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 20 September 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
  8. "Dr H. H. Pereira". Church Times. No. 3285. 8 January 1926. p. 36. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 20 September 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
  9. "No. 27157". The London Gazette. 26 January 1900. p. 512.
  10. The Times, Thursday,2 January 1926; pg. 14; Issue 38184; col A Death of the Bishop of Croydon
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