biography
| name: |
Broughton, William Grant
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pronunciation:
[brawtn]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1788–1853)
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| biography:
| First Anglican bishop of Sydney, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and was ordained in 1818, ministering in Hampshire before accepting an invitation from the Duke of Wellington to become the second archdeacon of New South Wales. He arrived in Sydney in 1829, and became Bishop of Australia in 1836. With the division into more manageable dioceses (1847), he was restyled Bishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of Australia. |
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