William George Peel | |
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Born | 1854 |
Died | April 15, 1916 | (aged 62)
William George Peel (1854 – 15 April 1916) was the Anglican Bishop of Mombasa in what is now Kenya.[1] He was accused of heresy in the Kikuyu controversy.[2]
Peel was born in 1854, educated at Blackheath Proprietary School,[3] and ordained in 1875. After a curacy in Trowbridge, he went out as a missionary to India, where he rose to be principal of Noble College Masulipatam. Appointment to the episcopate as the third bishop of Mombasa came in 1899[4] — he was consecrated a bishop on St Peter's Day (29 June) 1899 by Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral.[5] In October 1899 and December 1909 he presented the prizes at the annual Commemoration Day of Monkton Combe School in Somerset, of which his father in law, the Revd R G Bryan, was Principal.[6][7]
After celebrating an ecumenical communion service with Methodists and Presbyterians in Kikuyu, and giving communion to non-Anglicans, he was accused of heresy by Bishop Frank Weston of Zanzibar in the Kikuyu controversy.