Binney, Hibbert

Fourth Bishop of Nova Scotia.

Hibbert Binney was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia in 1819, and educated at King's College, London. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Oxford University in 1842, and ordained deacon that same year. He was a lecturer at Worcester College, Oxford from 1842 to 1846, and was ordained priest in 1843. He received his Master of Arts from Oxford in 1844, and became a Tutor at Worcester College from 1846 to 1858. He became the bursar of the college from 1848 to 1851. He was consecrated Bishop of Nova Scotia in 1851, and received an honourary Doctor of Divinity from Oxford that same year. He obtained a Doctor of Divinity from the University of King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1852, and married Mary Bliss in 1855. The couple had two sons and one daughter. He passed away in New York in 1887.