Wilfrid Bird Hornby was an Anglican colonial bishop at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. [1]
Born on 25 February 1851 [2] and educated at Marlborough and Brasenose College, Oxford [3] he was ordained in 1876. [4] In 1880 he went on the Oxford Mission to Calcutta, [5] returning in 1884. From 1885 to 1892 he was Vicar of St Columba's, Southwick, Sunderland [6] when he was elevated to the episcopate as Bishop of Nyasaland. [7] After only two years he returned to England, where he was Rector of St Clement's Church, Norwich [8] then Vicar of Chollerton. [9] In 1904 he was appointed Bishop of Nassau, a post he held until 1919. He died on 5 June 1935. [10]