Tully Kingdon
Hollingworth Tully Kingdon was an Anglican bishop, the second Bishop of Fredericton until his death. He was also a noted author.Early life
Born in London, in 1835, the son of William Kingdon and brother to James Durant Kingdon, he was educated at St Paul's School, London and admitted a pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge on 30 November 1853 and matriculated at Michaelmas 1854. He gained his Bachelor of Arts in 1858, proceeded Cambridge Master of Arts in 1861 and was eventually awarded a Doctor of Divinity in 1881, around the time of his episcopal ordination.Priestly career
in 1859 and priest in 1860, he began his career with curacies in Sturminster Marshall, Dorset, and Devizes, Wiltshire, both in Salisbury diocese. From 1864 to 1869 he was Vice Principal of Salisbury Theological College and then curate of St Andrew's, Wells Street, Marylebone. He became Vicar of Good Easter, Essex from 1878 until his appointment to the episcopate.On 12 January 1881, at a special Synod meeting, John Medley, Bishop of Fredericton nominated Kingdon for appointment as his coadjutor bishop — an assistant bishop with rights of succession to the diocesan See. He was duly ordained a bishop at the cathedral, Fredericton, Canada, on 10 July 1881. The chief consecrator was Medley himself, as Metropolitan of Canada; the co-consecrators were Hibbert Binney, Bishop of Nova Scotia; James Williams, Bishop of Quebec; Henry A. Neely, Bishop of Maine; and William Croswell Doane, Bishop of Albany, who preached. When Medley died in 1892, Kingdon automatically succeeded as second diocesan Bishop of Fredericton, in which post he remained til his death. He was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law by Trinity College, Toronto in 1893, and lived, as diocesan bishop, at Bottreaux House, Fredericton.
