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Person
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Fauquier, Frederick Dawson
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Dates of existence
1817 - 1881
History
First Bishop of Algoma.
Frederick Dawson Fauquier was born in Malta in 1817, and educated in England and Canada. He was ordained deacon in 1845, then priest in 1846. He married Sarah Burrowes (Burroughs) that same year, and the couple went on to have at least two sons. He worked for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Missionary in Zorra, Ontario from 1845 - 1873, and became the Archdeacon on Brant in 1872. He was consecrated Bishop of Algoma in 1873, and received an honourary D.C.L. from the University of Trinity College in 1874. He passed away in 1881 in Toronto, Ontario.