Collinson SawyerWilliam Collinson Sawyer was a colonial Anglican bishop in the third quarter of the nineteenth century.EducationHe was born in 1831 and educated at Abingdon School, from 1845 to 1850 and Oriel College, Oxford.CareerAfter some years as the Vicar of Tunbridge Wells, he was appointed the inaugural Bishop of Grafton and Armidale in Australia on 30 January 1867 and consecrated to the episcopate at Canterbury Cathedral on the Feast of the Purification, by Charles Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury. Around three months over taking charge of the diocese, he died by drowning when his boat was upset in the Clarence River on Sunday 15 March 1868.