Ernest Anderson (bishop)

Ernest Augustus Anderson (24 March 1859 – 5 April 1945) was installed in Hay, New South Wales as the second Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Riverina, New South Wales Australia, on 11 February 1896, at a time of financial difficulty for the church.[1]

Anderson was born in Milton Damerel, Devon, England and educated at Bedford School. He went to North Queensland as a mission preacher in 1882.[1]

Because of the continuing drought and rabbit plague, station owners no longer had the means of supporting the church, which meant that clergy had to work for almost nothing. Anderson's episcopate was also a time of conflict between the bishop and his clergy and the clergy and their parishioners.

By the turn of the century, new towns were flourishing throughout the Riverina, as the growing wheat industry gave the district a much needed economic boost. Anderson retired from active ministry in 1925, leaving twice as many parishes in the diocese as he took over originally.

References

Clyde, Laurel (1979). "Ernest Augustus Anderson". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 12 June 2012 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.

In a Strange Land: A History of the Anglican Diocese of Riverina by Laurel Clyde (Hawthorn Press, Melbourne: 1979).

Religious titles
Preceded by Sydney Linton	Bishop of Riverina 1895 –1925	Succeeded by Reginald Halse

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[adb-1] Clyde, Laurel (1979). "Ernest Augustus Anderson". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 12 June 2012 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.