Alfred Averill
Alfred Walter Averill (7 October 1865 – 6 July 1957) was the 5th Anglican Bishop of Auckland whose Episcopate spanned a 25-year period during the first half of the 20th century.[1]
Born in Staffordshire he was educated at King Edward VI School, Stafford and St John's College, Oxford[2] before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St George's, Hanover Square.[3] Emigrating to New Zealand in 1894 he was successively Vicar of St Michael’s and All Angels in Christchurch and Archdeacon of Akaroa before elevation to the See of Waiapu in 1910. Translated to Auckland four years later he was further promoted to be Archbishop of New Zealand in 1925.[2]
In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[4]
His son, Leslie Averill, served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force towards the end of the First World War, and played a key role in the capture of Le Quesnoy in France. He later became a prominent medical administrator and community leader in Christchurch.[5]
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| Preceded by | Bishop of Waiapu 1910–1914 |
Succeeded by William Walmsley Sedgwick |
| Preceded by | Bishop of Auckland, NZ 1914–1940 |
Succeeded by William John Simkin |
| Preceded by | Archbishop of New Zealand 1925–1940 |
Succeeded by Campbell West-Watson |
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