Edward Dunn (bishop)

Edward Arthur Dunn was an eminent Anglican bishop in the mid-20th century.

Biography

Born into an ecclesiastical family – his father was Andrew Hunter Dunn, at sometime the Bishop of Quebec. On 8 August, 1868, he was educated at the Marlborough and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1895, he was successively the Curate and then the Rector of St Paul's Quebec, Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Bishop's University, Lennoxville, and finally the Rural Dean of Gaspe. Appointed to the post of Bishop of British Honduras in 1916, he was later elected the Archbishop of the West Indies. After retiring, he continued to take an active part in the life of his adopted country until his death on 11 January, 1955.