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- [S1] MWS, Andries William De Villiers, (University of Witwatersrand).
Educated: Jesus College, Cambridge (admitted pensioner, 10 June 1845; matriculated, Michaelmas 1845; Prizeman; senior optime and BA, 1849; MA, 1852). Ordained: Deacon, 1851, and Priest, 1852, by the Bishop of Worcester. Career: Fellow (tutor), St. Columba's College, Dublin. Curate of Frankley, near Birmingham, in the diocese of Worcester, 1851-1854. Arrived at the Cape, 1854. Acting Colonial Chaplain in the absence of the Dean, and Curate of St. George's Cathedral
(licensed 15 March 1854; served until 1856); Priest in temporary charge of Holy Trinity Church, Cape Town, during the absence of the Revd R G Lamb on leave (1854-1855); Priest-in-charge (from March 1856), and Rector of St. John the Baptist's, Schoonberg (instituted by the Ven. Archdeacon Thomas Earle Welby in July or August 1857; served until 1858); Examining (1858-1872) and Domestic (from 1859) Chaplain to the Metropolitan, the Most Revd Robert Gray; first Warden (1858-1866, and 1868-1869) of the College for the Sons of Native Chiefs (later the Native College and Industrial School, otherwise known as the "Kaffir College", or Zonnebloem College); and Curate of St. Mary's, Woodstock (licensed 20 August 1865; served until 1869), all in the diocese of Cape Town. Attended the first synod of the diocese of Cape Town, January 1857. Lived in England, 1866-1868, and 1869-1870. Archdeacon of George, and Rector of St. Mark's, George (instituted 14 May 1870; served until June 1871); Canon of St. George's Cathedral, and Curate in charge of Kalk Bay (licensed 3 December 1872; served until 1873), all in the diocese of Cape Town. He returned to England in September 1873. Curate of Calboume, Isle of Wight, 1874-1876. Worked in a number of parishes for a year, 1876-1877. Vicar of Christ Church, Wolverhampton, in the diocese of Lichfield, 18771880. Vicar of Denham, near Bury St. Edmunds, 1880-1886. Vicar of Whittlesford, in the diocese of Ely, 1886-1891. Retired to live at 20, West Mall, Clifton in Bristol. Died: Wimpole Street, London (after an operation), on 17 December 1894. [He was the brother of the Revd George Glover, infra.] [Archives of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, AB 1159Fo/, Records of the Diocese of Cape Town, 1847-1865, pp. cxxxix, clx. Bishopscourt Archives, Licences to Clergy, 1848-1963, p. 2, 4, 5; Institution of Clergy, 1857-1987. The South African Church Magazine and Ecclesiastical Review, vol. III (September 1855), p. 270; vol. IV (April 1856), p. 128. The South African Church Magazine and Educational Register, vol. VII, no. 82 (October 1859), p. 398. Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1889, p. 493. The Cape Church Monthly, vol. III, no. 2 (February, 1895), p. 21. CF Pascoe, Two Hundred Years of the S.P.G. (1901), p. 892. C Lewis and GE Edwards, Historical Records of the Church of the Province of South Africa (1934), pp. 104-105. JA Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, part II, vol. III (1947), p. 66. M Boucher, "Glover, Edward", in The Dictionary of South African Biography, vol. IV (1981), pp. 184-185.1
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