Mathew Blagden Hale: The Life of an Australian Pioneer Bishop by A de Q Robin

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Scartch to top right of front endpage, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Dust jacket is worn at edges and has scuffing to front and back. Mark on front cover. Body text and binding are still excellent.

Mathew Blagden Hale served the Anglican Church in three Australian colonies for thirty-seven years. He came to South Australia with Bishop Short in 1847 and was appointed Archdeacon of Adelaide. Eight years later, he was consecrated as the first Bishop of Perth. Then, in 1875, he accepted the Bishopric of Brisbane.

Before he retired in 1885, he presided over the General Synod of the Church of England as Senior Bishop in the Australian colonies.

Arthur de Quetteville Robin has drawn extensively on the Bishop's diaries and papers to give a complete account of Hale's life and work. Nineteenth-century attitudes to Aboriginal peoples, the convict era in Western Australia, and the challenges faced by Queensland communities in the 1870s form the background against which Hales' work is discussed. (book flap)