John Jamieson Willis
John Jamieson Willis
| Ven. Archdeacon John Jamieson Willis | |||||||
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| Born | 1872 | ||||||
| Died | 1954 | ||||||
| Residence | CMS Mission, Maseno, Kisumu, British East Africa | ||||||
| Occupation | church | ||||||
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1911.03.20 proposed by C.W. Hobley, seconded by W. Ridgeway
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John Jamieson Willis CBE (8 November 1872 – 12 November 1954) was an Anglican bishop, Bishop of Uganda from 1912 to 1934 and subsequently Assistant Bishop of Leicester.[1] He and William George Peel, Bishop of Mombasa, were accused of heresy during the Kikuyu controversy.
Born on 8 November 1872, the second son of Sir William Willis, Accountant-General of the Navy, and great-grandson of Joseph Tucker, Surveyor of the Navy[2][3] Willis was educated at Haileybury and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1894, Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab) in 1899, and Doctor of Divinity (DD) in 1912.[4][5] He was ordained in 1895[6] and began his career with a curacy in Great Yarmouth. Then he began a long period of service as a CMS missionary in Africa eventually becoming Archdeacon of Kavirondo before his appointment to the episcopate in 1912.[7][8] In 1934 he returned to England to be Assistant Bishop of Leicester. He died on 12 November 1954.