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{{Portal|Anglicanism}} The Very Reverend '''Arthur Richard Rivers''' (1857–1940) was [[Dean of Hobart]] from 1920 to 1940.<ref>[http://www.tasmaniananglican.com/ta200409-14/ Tasmanian Anglican]</ref>
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'''Arthur Richard Rivers''' (1857–1940) was [[Dean of Hobart]] from 1920 to 1940.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tasmaniananglican.com/ta200409-14/ |title=Tasmanian Anglican |access-date=4 November 2013 |archive-date=4 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104230540/http://www.tasmaniananglican.com/ta200409-14/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

{{Listen|type=music|filename=Twas in the time that Caesar ruled.mid|title=Twas in the time that Caesar ruled 1911 by Arthur Rivers|description=MIDI version<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article235933442 |title=NEW MUSIC. |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|The Daily Telegraph]] |issue=3888 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=12 December 1891 |accessdate=13 November 2021 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>}}


== Early life ==
== Early life ==
Rivers was born in [[Teignmouth]] and educated at [[St John's College, Oxford]].<ref>‘RIVERS, Very Rev. Arthur Richard’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Oct 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U216208, accessed 4 Nov 2013]</ref> His younger brother was [[Richard Godfrey Rivers]], an artist and gallery curator.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A44851|title=A. R. Rivers: (author/organisation) {{!}} AustLit: Discover Australian Stories|last=Austlit|website=www.austlit.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2017-04-19}}</ref>
Rivers was born in [[Teignmouth]] and educated at [[St John's College, Oxford]].<ref>‘RIVERS, Very Rev. Arthur Richard’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Oct 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U216208, accessed 4 Nov 2013]</ref> His younger brother was [[Richard Godfrey Rivers]], an artist and gallery curator.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A44851|title=A. R. Rivers: (author/organisation) {{!}} AustLit: Discover Australian Stories|last=Austlit|website=www.austlit.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2017-04-19}}</ref>


== Religious life ==
== Religious life ==
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Latest revision as of 21:00, 2 October 2024

Arthur Richard Rivers (1857–1940) was Dean of Hobart from 1920 to 1940.[1]

Early life

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Rivers was born in Teignmouth and educated at St John's College, Oxford.[3] His younger brother was Richard Godfrey Rivers, an artist and gallery curator.[4]

Religious life

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Ordained in 1882 Rivers began his career with a curacy in Painswick. Emigrating to Australia he was Precentor of Sydney Cathedral and Chaplain to the Primate of Australia. Moving to Queensland he was Rector of St Michael, Brisbane and then St Andrew in the same city. He was Archdeacon of Burnett and Wide Bay from 1896 to 1905; and of Toowoomba from then[5] until his appointment as Dean of Hobert.

Later life

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Rivers died on 1 November 1940.

References

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  1. ^ "Tasmanian Anglican". Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  2. ^ "NEW MUSIC". The Daily Telegraph. No. 3888. New South Wales, Australia. 12 December 1891. p. 10. Retrieved 13 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ ‘RIVERS, Very Rev. Arthur Richard’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 4 Nov 2013
  4. ^ Austlit. "A. R. Rivers: (author/organisation) | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  5. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30: Oxford, OUP, 1929
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