The Rt Rev James Thomas Hayes DD

Doctor of Divinity

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 was Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago

Anglican Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago

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  from 1889 until his death in 1904.

He was born in 1847 and educated at Ipswich

Ipswich

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 grammar school and Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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. After graduation he was ordained in 1871 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy

Curate

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 at St John’s, Chatham. From 1875 to 1889 he held incumbencies

Vicar

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 at Swineshead

Swineshead, Bedfordshire

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, Hinckley

Hinckley

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 and Leicester

Leicester

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.

He died on 26 January 1904 and the Bishop’s official residence is named in his honour.