Gerard Trower

Who was Gerard Trower?

Right Reverend Gerard Trower, DD was an Anglican bishop.

Trower was born in Hook, Yorkshire and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood and Keble College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1888 and his first position was as a curate in Birmingham. He then emigrated to Australia where he became Rector of Christ Church St. Laurence in Sydney. When he left, in 1901, for the Nyasaland bishopric, his parishioners gave him a gold cross, and he received the honorary degree Doctor of Divinity from the University of Oxford. He was consecrated as Bishop of Likoma by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Westminster Cathedral 25 January 1902, and arrived in his new diocese of Nyasaland later that year. Two years later, in January 1903, he laid the foundation stone for the new Cathedral of Likoma, to be dedicated to Saint Peter.

Trower was translated to the new Diocese of North West Australia in 1910. After 17 years in this position he retired to Chale, Isle of Wight, where he died in 1928.