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Revision as of 14:03, 4 November 2013
The Very Reverend Arthur Richard Rivers (1857-1940) was Dean of Hobart from 1920 to 1940.[1]
He was born in Teignmouth and educated at St John's College, Oxford.[2] Ordained in 1882 he 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[3] until his appointment as Dean.
He died on 1 November 1940.
References
- ^ Tasmanian Anglican
- ^ ‘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
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30: Oxford, OUP, 1929
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