Anson, Adelbert John Robert

First Bishop of Qu' Appelle.

Adelbert John Robert Anson was born in London, England in 1840. He attended Theological College at Lichfield, and received a Bachelor of Arts from Oxford in 1863. He was ordained deacon in 1864, and priest in 1865. He was a curate in Wolverhampton from 1864 to 1866, then in Bilston from 1866 to 1868. In 1867 he received a Master of Arts from Oxford, and became a Vicar in Handsworth from 1868 to 1870, then moved to Sedgley and was the vicar there. He became The rector in Woolwich in 1875, and became an honourary Canon in 1883 at Rochester Cathedral. He was consecrated Bishop of Assiniboia (Saskatchewan, Canada) in 1884. During his tenture, the Diocese eventually changed its name to Qu'Appelle. 23 churches were built in the diocese while he was Bishop, and he founded a boys' school in 1889. He gained an honourary Doctor of Civil Law from Trinity University in Toronto, Ontario in 1887, and an honourary Doctor of Divinity from Oxford in 1896. He resigned the See of Qu'Appelle in 1892, and became the Warden of St. John's Hospital in Lichfield, England until 1898. He was then the Canon Residentiary at Lichfield Cathedral until he died in 1909.