Montagu Stone-Wigg

The Rt Rev Montagu John Stone-Wigg was an Anglican Colonial Bishop who in the last decade of the 19th century and the first one of the 20th.

He was born on 4 October 1861^[1] and educated at Winchester and University College, Oxford.^[2] Ordained in 1885,^[3] after curacies in Westminster Hammersmith he went to Brisbane in 1889 to be the Sub dean of St John's cathedral. Two years later he became a Canon^[4] and in 1898 he the inaugural Bishop of New Guinea.

He died on 16 October 1918.^[5]

References

1. About NSW
2. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
3. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
4. Project Canterbury
5. The Times, Thursday, November 07, 1918; pg. 8; Issue 41941; col F Obituary Bishop Stone-Wigg