Serie 45 - Hollingworth Tully Kingdon correspondence

Coadjutor Bishop of Fredericton; Second Bishop of Fredericton.

Hollingworth Tully Kingdon was born in London, England in 1835. He gained a B.A. from Cambridge University in 1858, and was ordained deacon the following year in Buckingham. He was curate of Sturminster-Marshall, Dorset until 1863, and was ordained priest in 1860. He obtained a B.A. from Cambridge in 1861. In 1863, he became curate of Devizes, Wiltshire, until he took on the role of Vice-Principal at Sarum Theological College in 1864, a position he held until 1869. He was then curate of St. Andrew's Church in London until 1878, when he became Vicar of Good Easter, Essex. In 1881, he was consecrated Coadjutor Bishop of Fredericton, and was granted an honourary D.D. from Cambridge. He received two more honourary D.D.'s, one from the University of Trinity College, Toronto, Ontario, in 1885, and one from the University of King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1890. He succeeded to the See of Fredericton in 1892, and received an honourary D.C.L. in 1893. He passed away in 1907 in Fredericton.