Edward Wyndham Tufnell (3 October 1814 – 3 December 1896) was an Anglican priest. He was the first

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, Australia.

Early life

Tufnell was born on 3 October 1814 in

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and educated at Eton and

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. He was the son of a banker, John Charles Tufnell, and Uliana Ivanova Margaret Fowell, who had a total of eighteen children.

Ecclesiastical career

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a priest in 1839, his first posts were curacies at Broadwindsor and Broad Hinton. After this he held incumbencies at Beechingstoke and

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. He served as Anglican Bishop of Brisbane from 1859 to 1874. While in

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in 1863, Edward Tufnell commissioned architect Benjamin Backhouse to build the house ''Riversleigh'' on North Quay as an investment. Tufnell returned to England in 1874. In 1882 he became the vicar of

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near

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and in 1888 he paid for the school to move to a new site in Felpham Way. The school is still named after him, but moved again in 1957. The rector's vestry at St Mary's Church was erected in 1899 as a memorial to him.

Marriage and family

Tufnell married his cousin, Laura Tufnell, who was the daughter of John Jolliffe Tufnell of Langleys,

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, Essex. They had two children: Arthur Wyndam Tufnell, who was murdered in India while travelling on a train to

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; and Ida Mary Uliana Mary Tufnell, who married Henry Arthur Wansbrough, a priest. Ida was the grandmother of the

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monk and scholar, Dom Henry Wansbrough. Laura Tufnell was the sister of Maria Tufnell, who married Edward Strutt, founder of

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estate agents. Maria was lady-in-waiting to

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. Tufnell died on 3 December 1896.

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, Friday, 4 December 1896; pg. 6; Issue 35065; col D ''Obituary E.W. Tufnell DD''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tufnell, Edward Wyndham 1814 births Clergy from Bath, Somerset People educated at Eton College Anglican bishops of Brisbane 19th-century Anglican bishops in Australia 1896 deaths Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford People from Felpham