Churchill Julius (15 October 1847 – 1 September 1938) was an Anglican cleric in England, then in Australia and New Zealand, becoming the first

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Biography

Julius was born at

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, London in 1847. He was educated at

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and

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, where he graduated BA in 1869 and MA in 1871. He was ordained a deacon in 1871 and priest in 1872. He was Curate, firstly at St Giles' Church, Norwich (1871) and subsequently at St. Michael's, South Brent, Somerset (subsequently renamed "Brent Knoll" to avoid confusion with the village of the same name in Devonshire). Julius then became Vicar at St. Mary's,

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, a post retained until 1878 and following which he was appointed to the cure of Holy Trinity,

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. In 1884 he left England for Australia to become Archdeacon for the diocese of Ballarat,

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, a post he held until 1890. In 1889 he was nominated to the Diocese of Christchurch, New Zealand, and became the second Bishop of Christchurch in 1890. He was active in completing the

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, and in support for education, which is remembered in the Bishop Julius Hostel for women students. In 1922, he was made the first Primate and

. He retired in 1925.

Personal

Churchill Julius was born in

Richmond Palace Richmond Palace was a Tudor royal residence on the River Thames in England which stood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Situated in what was then rural Surrey, it lay upstream and on the opposite bank from the Palace of Westminste ...

, Surrey, England in 1847, one of two sons born to Dr Frederic Gilder Julius (the President of the

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and whose father had been doctor to

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) and Ellen Hannah Smith. He died in

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, New Zealand, in 1938. He married Alice Rowlandson in 1873; they had five daughters (two of whom, Ella and Bertha, married two brothers, Arthur and Percy of the Elworthy family) and two sons; Awdry who went into the Church in New Zealand (he became

Archdeacon of Timaru The Diocese of Christchurch is one of the thirteen dioceses and ''hui amorangi'' (Māori bishoprics) of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The Diocese covers the area between the Conway River and the Waitaki River in th ...

) and

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. George (later Dr Sir George Julius) became a distinguished engineer and prolific inventor of, ''inter alia'', the

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(for racecourse betting) who spent the bulk of his life in Australia. Julius died on 1 September 1938 and was buried at Linwood Cemetery two days later.

References

External links

''Churchill Julius'' in 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand

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