Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury Reverend John Bird to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 27 September 1858, CO 60:2, no. 9880, 606.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Other documents (2).
The Bishop of Canterbury informs Lytton that Angela Burdett-Coutts has “empowered” the Bishop with £15,000 to promote Christianity in British Columbia and to appoint a bishop to “superintend the religious interest” of the colony.
Enclosed is a draft from the CO to the Archbishop of Canterbury offering the complete support of the government to Burdett-Coutts’s offer; and a draft from Lytton to Douglas informing him of Burdett-Coutts’s “magnificent endowment.”
Canterbury, Archbishop of, to Lytton
Lambeth
Sept 27 1858
Sir
I have the honor to acquaint you that in consequence of the
importance that is likely to belong to the colony of New Columbia, & the
expediency of providing for the spiritual instruction of the population
assembling there, Miss Burdett Coutts has empowered me to propose the
appointment of a bishop there, who may take the oversight of the Clergy &
superintend the religious interest of the
country & people; and for that
purpose she is prepared to furnish an endowment of the See, to the amount
of £15,000.
country & people; and for that
purpose she is prepared to furnish an endowment of the See, to the amount
of £15,000.
I am in hopes that Her Majesty's Government may consider
this so desirable a measure, as to consent to the creation of
the See; & have the honour to be, Sir,
Right Honble
Sir E Lytton
Sir E Lytton
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Draft, Colonial Office to Archbishop of Canterbury, 7 October 1858, offering the complete support of the government to Burdett-Coutts's
offer.
Minutes by CO staff
Sir Edward Lytton
I have recast & modified this Letter as I first drafted it & I think I have introduced the alterations you wished.
I have recast & modified this Letter as I first drafted it & I think I have introduced the alterations you wished.
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Minutes by CO staff
Sir E. Lytton
I think that some announcement of the new See sd be made to the Govr. I therefore suggest this.
I think that some announcement of the new See sd be made to the Govr. I therefore suggest this.
Footnotes
- John Bird Sumner, the Archbishop of Canterbury, signed himself as J.B. Cantuar., which is the traditional form of the Church of England still used today. Necessary??