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Vincent William Ryan

1816–88

Clergyman. BA, Oxford, 1841; DD 1853. After ordination, held curacies in Alderney and Liverpool. Became principal of the Church of England Metropolitan Training Institution at Highbury, Middlesex, 1850. Bishop of Mauritius, 1855–67; consecrated new churches in Mahébourg, and in the Seychelles. Vicar of St Peter’s, Bournemouth, 1880–1. Held additional ecclesiastical posts in England until his death.

Source

ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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