Edward Etheridge
The Rt Revd Edward Harold Etheridge (1872–1954) was the 4th Bishop of St John's in what was then known as Kaffraria and is now Mthatha. Educated at Marlborough and Keble College, Oxford he was ordained in 1895. He began his career with curacies at Kensington and Slough before emigrating to begin missionary work in Mashonaland. Subsequently, the area's archdeacon and additionally an honorary canon of St Mary's Cathedral in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) he was elevated to the episcopate in 1923 and served his mainly rural diocese for twenty years, followed by a further seven as canon chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Grahamstown. A "quiet, unassuming prelate devoted to his diocese", he died on 16 September 1954. Notes 1872 births 1954 deaths 20th-century Anglican Church of Southern Africa bishops Alumni of Keble College, Oxford Anglican archdeacons in Africa Archdeacons of Mashonaland Anglican bishops of St John's People educated at Marlborough College