Gerard Trower
Anglican bishop of the north-west of Western Australia

Gerard Trower

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Anglican bishop of the north-west of Western Australia
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
3 December 1860
Death:
25 August 1928
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Education:
Keble College
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Biography

Gerard Trower (3 December 1860 – 25 August 1928) was an Anglican bishop.

Trower was born in Hook, Yorkshire and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood and Keble College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1888 and his first position was as a curate in Birmingham. He then emigrated to Australia where he became Rector of Christ Church St. Laurence in Sydney. When he left, in 1901, for the Nyasaland bishopric, his parishioners gave him a gold cross, and he received the honorary degree Doctor of Divinity (DD) from the University of Oxford. He was consecrated as Bishop of Likoma by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Westminster Cathedral 25 January 1902, and arrived in his new diocese later that year. Two years later, in January 1903, he laid the foundation stone for the new Cathedral of Likoma, to be dedicated to Saint Peter. In 1908, he secured from the Archbishop a change in his See's name from Likoma back to Nyasaland.

Trower was translated to the new Diocese of North West Australia in 1910. After 17 years in this position he retired to Chale, Isle of Wight, where he died in 1928.

Church of England titles
Preceded by
John Hine
Bishop of Likoma (until 1908)
Bishop of Nyasaland (from 1908)

1901 – 1910
Succeeded by
Cathrew Fisher
New title Bishop of North West Australia
1910 – 1927
Succeeded by
John Frewer