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Walter Chambers (1824–1893) was the second
Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak The Bishop of Kuching is the Ordinary (officer), ordinary of the Anglicanism, Anglican Diocese of Kuching in the Church of the Province of South East Asia. The bishop exercises episcopal authority over Anglican churches in the Malaysian state of ...
from 1868 to 1881.


Personal life

He had arrived in
Sarawak Sarawak ( , ) is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia. It is the largest among the 13 states, with an area almost equal to that of Peninsular Malaysia. Sarawak is located in East Malaysia in northwest Borneo, and is ...
in 1851, married Lizzie Wooley, another missionary and cousin of the
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's wife,
Harriette McDougall Henriette McDougall (, became Harriette McDougall, 30 August 1818 – 1886) was a British missionary, teacher and artist in what is now Malaysia. Life McDougall was born in Blackfriars, London in 1818. Her elder sister, Sarah, married John Cole ...
, in 1857, and resigned in 1879.


Death

He died on 21 December 1893, aged 69 and he was buried in
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.
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, 28 December 1893; pg. 3; Issue 34146; col FCourt Circular


References

19th-century Anglican bishops in Asia Anglican bishops of Labuan and Sarawak 1893 deaths English expatriates 1824 births {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub