Serie 28 - Edward Feild correspondence

Second Bishop of Newfoundland (with Bermuda).

Edward Feild was born in Worcester, England in 1801. He received a B.A. from Oxford University in 1823, then an M.A. in 1825. He was ordained deacon that same year, and priest in 1827. He served as curate in Kidlington, England from 1826 to 1831, then at St. Martin's, Salisbury until 1834. From there, he became Rector of English Bicknor, Gloucestershire, from 1834 to 1844. During this time, he was also fouthe Inspector of Schools for the National Society from 1840 to 1841. In 1844, he was consecrated Bishop of Newfoundland, and received an honourary D.D. from Oxford. During his episcopacy, he travelled through Newfoundland and the Labrador coast, as well as to Bermuda, baptizing babies, consecrating churches and graveyards, and regularizing marriages. He also founded a theological college and collegiate school, and completed the building of a Cathedral in St. John's in 1850. He married Sophia Bevan in 1867, the widow of Rev. Jacob Mountain, and resigned the See of Newfoundland in 1876. He died in Bermuda that same year.