Serie 62 - William Willcox Perrin correspondence

Second Bishop of British Columbia; Bishop of Willesden.

William Willcox Perrin was born in Westbury-on-Trym, England in 1848. He obtained a B.A. from Oxford University in 1870, and was ordained deacon in 1871, then prierst in 1872. He was curate of St. Mary's Church in Southampton from 1871 to 1882, and became Vicar of St. Luke's Church in Southampton in 1881. He obtained an M.A. from Oxford in 1873. He was consecrated Bishop of British Columbia in 1893, and received an honourary D.D. from Oxford. He was made an honourary fellow of King's College in London in 1901, and received an honourary D.C.L. from the University of King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1910. He was translated to the See of Willesden, England in 1911, and remained there as Suffragan Bishop until he died in 1934.