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. Previous owner has added bookplate to blank front endpage. Light foxing to top foredge. Dust jacket is torn has some small tearing to edges. Dust jacket is now enclosed in protective covering. 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 full account of Hale's life and work. Nineteenth-century attitudes to Aboriginals, the convict era in Western Australia and the challenges of Queensland communities in the 1870s form part of the background against which Hales' work is discussed. (book flap)