John Weller (bishop)


The Right Reverend John Reginald Weller was an Anglican priest. He was the Bishop of the Falkland Islands from 1934–1937, and of Argentina and Eastern South America from 1937–1946.
He was educated at Bedford School and Selwyn College, Cambridge; and, after an earlier career as a tea planter, was ordained in 1914. He served in Delhi, Waziristan, Mesopotamia and Quetta. He was the Superintendent of the Missions to Seamen in Melbourne and then Merseyside before his elevation to the Episcopate. Returning to England, he was Assistant Bishop of Southwell, Vicar of Edwalton and Rector of Holme Pierrepont.