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Publications & Reports

Printed newsprint glued on paper

14/12/1865

One cut out column of newsprint text pasted onto a plus-sized A4 unlined sheet with visible warping.

William Macrorie was the first colonial bishop not appointed by the (British) Crown. His appointment was rejected by Lord Derby's goverment and vetoed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles Longley. In January 1868, Bishop Robert Gray of Cape Town offered Macrorie the bishopric of the church in Natal. However, Bishop John Colenso of Natal had refused to recognise his canonical deposition pronounced in 1863 -- since which, Gray had attempted to establish a rival episcopate culminating in Macrories installament (unilaterally by Gray) as the Bishop of Maritzburg on January 25th, 1869.