John Sheepshanks

Who was John Sheepshanks?

John Sheepshanks was an English Anglican Bishop in the last decade of the 19th century and the first one of the 20th.

Born in 1834, he was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1857, he was a Curate at Leeds Parish Church and later Rector of New Westminster and Chaplain to George Hills, the Bishop of Columbia. After that he held incumbencies in Bilton, Yorkshire and Anfield, Liverpool before his elevation to the Episcopate as Bishop of Norwich in 1893, a post he held until 1909. A noted author, he died on 3 June 1909.