John Willis (bishop)

John Willis
John Willis, photographed c. 1910–15
Church	Church of England
Diocese	Diocese of Eastern Equatorial Africa
Predecessor	Alfred Tucker
Successor	Cyril Stuart
Personal details
Born	8 November 1872
Died	12 November 1954

The Rt Rev John Jamieson Willis, CBE, DD (8 November 1872 – 12 November 1954) was an Anglican bishop, Bishop of Uganda from 1912 to 1934 and subsequently Assistant Bishop of Leicester.^[1] He and William George Peel, the Bishop of Mombasa, were accused of heresy during the Kikuyu controversy.

Biography

Born on 8 November 1872, the second son of Sir William Willis, K.C., Accountant-General of the Navy, and great-grandson of Joseph Tucker, Surveyor of the Navy^[2][3] Willis was educated at Haileybury and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took a B.A. in 1894 and M.A. in 1899, and D.D. in 1912.^[4][5] He was ordained in 1895^[6] and began his career with a curacy in Great Yarmouth. Then he began a long period of service as a CMS missionary in Africa eventually becoming Archdeacon of Kavirondo before his elevation to the Episcopate in 1912.^[7][8] In 1934 he returned to England to be Assistant Bishop of Leicester. He died on 12 November 1954.

References

1. Who was Who 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
2. "Haileybury Register". Haileybury and Imperial Service College. 1910. p. 366.
3. Alumni Cantabrigienses, Volume 2: From 1752 to 1900, Part 6: Square- Zupitza, pg 507
4. "Willis, John Jamieson (WLS891JJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
5. The Times, Friday, Jan 14, 1898; pg. 6; Issue 35413; col A University Intelligence. Cambridge, Jan. 13
6. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
7. New Bishop Of Uganda The Times Saturday, Dec 23, 1911; pg. 3; Issue 39776; col E
8. National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives

External links

• Portraits of John Jamieson Willis at the National Portrait Gallery, London