Hibbert Binney (12 August 1819 – 30 April 1887) was a

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bishop. He was the fourth

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from 1851 to 1887. Born in

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, the grandson of

Hibbert Newton Binney Hibbert Newton Binney (1766–1842) was a soldier in the Royal Nova Scotia Volunteer Regiment in the American Revolution. He became a member of the Nova Scotia Council. He was also a painter who created some of the earliest images of the Mi'kma ...

and the son of the Reverend Hibbert Binney and Henrietta Amelia Stout. Hibbert Binney Sr. was the rector of St George's Church in Sydney. In 1823, Binney Sr. returned to England with his family to become rector of

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. From 1833, he was the minister of

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, London. The family lived at Mound House, 11

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Avenue, north Kensington. Binney Jr. was educated at King's College London, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from

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in 1842. He was ordained deacon by the

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Richard Bagot in 1842 and was appointed a

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of Worcester College. In 1844, he received his Master of Arts and was appointed tutor in 1846. In 1848, he became bursar of Worcester College. Black-Binney House, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Black-Binney House, Halifax, Nova Scotia

In 1851, Binney was named Bishop of Nova Scotia and was consecrated in

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by Archbishop John Bird Sumner of

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and assisted by Bishops Blomfield of London, Wilberforce of Oxford, and Gilbert of Chichester. He was married to Mary Bliss (1829–1903), she was the daughter of William Blowers Bliss and Sarah Ann Anderson. Binney lived for years with Rosina in what is now known as the

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, which is now a national historic site. WittonChurchMemTablet1

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Binney, Hibbert 1819 births 1887 deaths Alumni of King's College London Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford Anglican bishops of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island 20th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford