Serie 74 - Acton Windeyer Sillitoe correspondence

First Bishop of New Westminster.

Acton Windeyer Sillitoe was born in 1840 in Sydney, Australia, and educated at King's College School in London, England. He attended Cambridge University, obtained a B.A. in 1862 and marrying Violet E. (last name unknown). In 1866, he obtained an M.A., and three years later was ordained deacon in Wolverhampton, England. He was curate of Brierley Hill, Staffordshire from 1869 to 1871, and was ordained priest in 1870. He went on to be curate of All Saints' in Wolverhampton for two years, then of Ellenbrook, England for three years. He travelled to Geneva, Switzerland in 1876 to become the British Chaplain there for a year, then to Darmstadt, Germany in 1877 to be the Chaplain to the British Legation and to H. R. H. Princess Alice. In 1879, he became the rector of Holy Trinity Church in New Westminster, British Columbia, and was consecrated Bishop of New Westminster. He received an honourary D.D. from Cambridge, and in 1893, an honourary D.C.L. from the University of Trinity College, Toronto. He passed away in 1894.