Memoir of the Life and Episcopate of George Augustus Selwyn, ... - 9781108039574

Memoir of the Life and Episcopate of George Augustus Selwyn, D.D.Bishop of New Zealand, 18411869, Bishop of Lichfield, 18671878\nAuthor(s): H. W. Tucker\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108039574, 978-1108039574\nSynopsis\nThis two-volume biography of George Augustus Selwyn [tel], the first Anglican bishop of New Zealand, after whom Selwyn College, Cambridge, was later named, was published in 1879. Selwyn was ordained in 1834 and served as curate at Windsor; in 1840, when New Zealand was declared an independent British colony, he was chosen as first bishop of the newly established diocese. The declared aim was to develop an Anglican organisation for the growing European settlement, while resisting too much state control, and by 1857 Selwyn had drafted a constitution for the Church of New Zealand which led eventually to disestablishment. A staunch defender of indigenous rights, he travelled wid.