Herbert Tugwell (15 March 1854 – 22 July 1936) was a colonial Anglican bishop in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[1] ordained priest the following year;[2]
Tugwell was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom, educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and ordained in 1881.[3][4] He was Curate of St Mary, Petworth[5] and then a Church Mission Society (CMS) missionary in Lagos.[6]
In 1894 he was appointed to the episcopate as Bishop of Western Equatorial Africa.[7] The CMS decided to create two assistant bishops to help with the workload of the large diocese and to assuage African opinion. James Johnson, although the most prominent clergyman in the colony, was considered unsafe. Instead the more conservative Charles Phillips of Ondo was appointed, along with Isaac Oluwole, a former principal of the CMS Grammar School, Lagos.[8] When the Western Equatorial Africa diocese was split in 1919, Tugwell became the inaugural Bishop on the Niger.
He returned to England in 1921 and served as Rector of Mavesyn Ridware, Staffordshire from 1921 to 1927.
He died on 22 July 1936[9] and was buried in St. Helen's Church, Benson, Oxfordshire.[10] He had married Caroline White and had a son and a daughter; he had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).
In 1939, a church in the Anglican Diocese of Lagos was named after him. The church, Bishop Tugwell Memorial Anglican Church (BTM for short), is reputed to be the oldest Igbo Anglican church in the whole of Lagos. BTM Anglican Church marked its 75th anniversary with a church service on 19 October 2014.
Archives
editA collection of archival material related to Herbert Tugwell can be found at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.[11]
References
edit- ^ "Ordinations on Sunday Last". Church Times. No. 1635. 25 May 1894. p. 565. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 9 March 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 1.
- ^ Mundus
- ^ Ordinations Chichester The Times Wednesday, Dec 21, 1881; pg. 10; Issue 30383; col B
- ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
- ^ "Missionary Archives on Africa" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-16. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
- ^ Diocese of Lagos[permanent dead link]
- ^ Peel, J. D. Y. (2003). Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-21588-9.
- ^ Obituary Bishop Tugwell The Times Thursday, Jul 23, 1936; pg. 16; Issue 47434; col F
- ^ "Herbert Tugwell". Findagrave.com. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
- ^ "UoB Calmview5: Search results". calmview.bham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
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