Welbore MacCarthy, DD

Doctor of Divinity

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was the inaugural Bishop of Grantham

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 from 1905 until 1920. Born in 1840 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin

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, he was ordained in 1868. His first post after ordination

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 was as a curate

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 in Preston. From 1872 to 1898 he was a missionary

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 priest

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 in India

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, rising in time to be Archdeacon

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 of Calcutta. Returning to England

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 he was Rector

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 of Ashwell

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 then Rural Dean

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 of Corringham

Corringham, Lincolnshire

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 until 1905 when he was elevated to the Episcopate. He died on 21 March 1925.