THE BISHOP ELECT

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 25, 29 December 1925, Page 5

THE BISHOP ELECT

SEE OF CHRISTCHURCH. DR CAMPBELL WEST-WATSON’S CAREER. The Rt. Rev. Dr Campbell WestWatson, D.D., who has been appointed Anglican Bishop to the See of Christchurch, had, as lias been the case with so many other British people who have made New Zealand their home in recent years, liis thoughts turned to the Dominion by the wonderful impression produced on his mind by the New Zealanders he met in the war.

Dr Campbell West-Watson was born on April 23, 1877, and was brought up in Birkenhead, where for ten years he was at the Birkenhead School, from which he won a scholarship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1896> There he read classics for three years, taking a first class in 1899; and theology for two years, taking a first-class in 1901. After two years on the staff of Ridley. Hall Theological College, in Cambridge (during which he was ordained) Tie returned to Emmanuel as Fellow, Chaplain and Theological Lecturer in 1903. There he remained till 1909, becoming Dean of the College in 1907. During his time Mr L. H. G. Greenwood (Christchurch) joined the staff of the college, since when it has enjoyed a succession of students from New Zealand. In 1909 Dr West-Watson went to Carlisle as Canon Residentiary and Bishop Suffragan. Later he became president of the Carlisle Federation of the C.E.M.S. In 1915 he was appointed Archdeacon of Westmoreland. The war saw him for a short time in France, but ho had to return to England owing to the 'illness of his Bishop, who passed away in 1920. Soon after Dr West-Watson was offered Crown Living of Aldingham, with a view to being available for the south of the Diocese and near Barrow-in-Furness, which is about 80 miles from Carlisle. He left the Canonry in 1921 and went to Aldingham—a seaside resort in Morecambe Bay, on the Lancashire coast, very near to Coniston and Windermere, exchanging to the Archdeaconry of Furness in 1923. He has been a member of the National Assembly since its formation, and for some years has been on the Missionary Council. “The choice of Dr Mest-Watson should prove to be a very happy one, states the Record, a church paper. “He had a brilliant academic career at Cambridge, and lvis sound learning, liis varied experience, and his moderate church views are such as to give every promise of his success in New ZeaMrs West-Watson- was Miss Emily Monsarrat, daughter of Rev. Henry Monsarrat, late Vicar of &t. Thomas s, Kendal. She comes of a family originally Spanish, later settled in Southern France, and since the Edict of Nantes, in Ireland. Dr. and Mrs West-Watson have a family of five, three girls and two boys. The eldest, Miss Eleanor \vestWatson, is nineteen. She was educated at St. Winifred’s School, Eastbourne, and since she loft there she has been an acting-captain of Girl Guides, and is greatly interested in Sunday school work. The second daughter, Caroline, who is seventeen years of age, is at Cheltenham Ladies’ College. She was intending to try for a scholarship at Oxford, but her studies will be continued in New Zealand. The third girl, Alison, aged fourteen, is at Casterton School, the boys are Keith, aged eleven, now at a preparatory school at Wetheral, near Carlisle, and Anthony, aged seven, at home. . „ , , The new bishop’s father was born in Glasgow of an old family of Glasgow merchants who were -Lanarkshire folk, originally from Calder. His mother was a Campbell, of a branch of that family whose ancestors migrated to Ireland in 1745. Her father was Dr. Theophilus Campbell, Dean of Dromore, in North Ireland.