Edmund Willoughby Sara(1891–18 September 1965) was an English Anglican clergyman who served as BishopCoadjutorofJamaicafrom 1937 to 1940.
Sara was educated atKing's College, Taunton;[1]Trinity College, Dublin;andSalisbury Theological College.He was made deacon onTrinity Sunday1916 (30 May)[2]and ordained priest the following Trinity Sunday (18 June 1916) — both times byFrederick Ridgeway,Bishop of Salisbury,atSalisbury Cathedral.[3]
AftercuraciesinWeymouthandGillingham, Dorset,he was with the Church of England Sunday School Institute from 1920 to 1926. Sara was Director of the London Diocesan Council for Youth from 1926 to 1928;VicarofWalham Greenfrom 1928 to 1932; andCanon ResidentiaryandChancellorofTruro Cathedralfrom 1932 until his appointment to the colonial episcopate.[4]
He was consecrated a bishop onSt Peter's Day1937 (29 June), byCosmo Lang,Archbishop of Canterbury,atSt Paul's Cathedral;[5]and served asCoadjutorBishop of Jamaica(and a Canon) until 1939. He returned to England to serve as anAssistant Bishop of Bath and Wellsfrom 1940 to 1943; andRectorofLudlowfrom 1944 until his retirement in 1963[6]— during the latter time, he was alsoAssistant Bishop of Hereford(1947–63).[7]He died on 18 September 1965.[8]
References
edit- ^J.N. Watts; J.A. Clifford, eds. (February 1965),THE ALUREDIAN(PDF),vol. 31,retrieved1 February2020
- ^"Trinity ordinations".Church Times.No. 2733. 11 June 1915. p. 634.ISSN0009-658X.Retrieved9 March2020– via UK Press Online archives.
- ^"Ordinations on Trinity Sunday".Church Times.No. 2787. 23 June 1916. p. 583.ISSN0009-658X.Retrieved9 March2020– via UK Press Online archives.
- ^"Sara, Edmund Willoughby".Who's Who & Who Was Who.Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black.Retrieved1 February2020.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^"St Paul's Cathedral. Consecration of Three Bishops".Church Times.No. 3884. 2 July 1937. p. 5.ISSN0009-658X.Retrieved9 March2020– via UK Press Online archives.
- ^MANSBRIDGE PAPERS Correspondence and papers of Albert Mansbridge (born 1876, d.1952), founder and first organising secretary of the Workers' Educational Association; 1893–1952, (British Library 65195-65368)
- ^"Clerical Obituary".Church Times.No. 5354. 24 September 1965. p. 19.ISSN0009-658X.Retrieved9 March2020– via UK Press Online archives.
- ^'Obituary'The Times,London, England Monday, 7 May 1945 Issue 50136p. 4
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