Henry Pereira

Henry Horace Pereira (16 January 1845 – 1 January 1926) was an Anglican suffragan bishop during the first quarter of the 20th century.

Henry Pereira, Bishop of Croydon

Pereira was born in 1845,[1] educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1869.[2] He served two curacies[3] before becoming the first Warden of the Wilberforce Memorial Mission in South London. Hampshire incumbencies[4] followed before a 30-year association with the Croydon area (which was then a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury, firstly as Rural Dean and (from 1904) Bishop of Croydon, suffragan bishop to the Archbishop. He was consecrated a bishop on the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul 1904 (25 January), at Westminster Abbey by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury.[5] As an endowment, he was also appointed to All Hallows Lombard Street in the same year;[6] when he resigned his See in 1924,[7] he retained the benefice of Lombard-Street until death.[1]

He was Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, and an Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria from January 1900 until her death the following year.[8]

"A man of great energy and a most effective speaker",[9] he died on New Year’s Day, 1926.

References
  1. "Pereira, Henry Horace". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com (2007 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 20 September 2020. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  2. The Times, Thursday, 23 December 1869; pg. 4; Issue 26628; col E Ordinations
  3. at Eston and Southampton "Who's Who (ibid)
  4. Again Southampton; and Chilbolton "Who's Who (ibid)
  5. "Consecration of bishops". Church Times (#2140). 29 January 1904. p. 131. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 20 September 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
  6. "A new suffragan bishop for Canterbury". Church Times (#2138). 15 January 1904. p. 67. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 20 September 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
  7. "Dr H. H. Pereira". Church Times (#3285). 8 January 1926. p. 36. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 20 September 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
  8. "No. 27157". The London Gazette. 26 January 1900. p. 512.
  9. The Times, Thursday,2 January 1926; pg. 14; Issue 38184; col A Death of the Bishop of Croydon
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