Colonial Despatches

Reverend Henry Edwin Daniel was an Anglican clergyman considered by the Colonial Church and School Society for missionary work in British Columbia in 1858.1 Daniel's appointment was not confirmed and Reverend William Burton Crickmer was sent instead.2

Born in Stapleford, England on 26 January 1833, Daniel was educated at Cambridge, graduating in 1857. He was made a deacon the same year, and became a priest in 1859. He served as Perpetual Curate of St. Luke's, Nottingham, from 1863 until his death in 1865.3

• 1. Hart to Secretary of State, 25 September 1858, 9830, CO 60/2. B585MI05.html
• 2. Preferments, Ecclesiastical Gazette, 9 November 1858, 111.
• 3. John Venn, ed., Alumni Cantabrigienses [part 2, vol. 2] (Cambridge University Press, 1944), 222. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t0rr1xr2k; Deaths, Ecclesiastical Gazette, 12 September 1865, 65.