Augustine Scriven (1852 – 21 July 1916) [1] was an eminent Anglican priest in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth. [2]
He was born in Spernall, Sambourne, Warwickshire [3] and educated at St Mary Hall, Oxford [4] and ordained in 1875. [5] After curacies at Kirkham and Frindsbury [6] he held incumbencies at Martinhoe [7] and St Peter, Rochester. In 1884 he became Archdeacon of Vancouver [8] a post he held until his appointment to the episcopate as Bishop of British Columbia in 1915. [9]
Augustine Scriven (1852 – 21 July 1916) [1] was an eminent Anglican priest in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth. [2]
He was born in Spernall, Sambourne, Warwickshire [3] and educated at St Mary Hall, Oxford [4] and ordained in 1875. [5] After curacies at Kirkham and Frindsbury [6] he held incumbencies at Martinhoe [7] and St Peter, Rochester. In 1884 he became Archdeacon of Vancouver [8] a post he held until his appointment to the episcopate as Bishop of British Columbia in 1915. [9]