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- [S1] MWS, Andries William De Villiers, (University of Witwatersrand).
Educated: Trinity College, Dublin (pensioner; matriculated, 7 October 1811; BA, 1817). Married: Passage West, Ireland, on 4 February 1820, to Elizabeth Clarke, the daughter of Frederick Clarke and his wife Eliza Boland. [She died in Port Elizabeth on 15 October 1842.] Ordained: Deacon, June 1819, and Priest, 7 November 1819, by the Bishop of Limerick. Career: Clerk (lay reader) to the Curate of Temple Michael, Battery Street, in Longford, 1819. Emigrated to the Cape with William Parker's party of settlers aboard the ship East Indian, 1820. Priest and schoolmaster, Clanwilliam, 1820-1825. "McCleland was so neglectful of his duties that the settlers were to protest vigorously to Lord Charles [Somerset] about his conduct `who by his unremitted and scandalous behaviour (has) made himself generally despised and forfeited by a continual course of Drunken, Immoral, Profane and irreligious conduct' " (Dickason). Appointed Colonial Chaplain (assumed duty, September 1825; served until 1853), and licensed by the Bishop, the Rt.. Revd Robert Gray, as Priest-in-charge (28 September 1848), of Port Elizabeth (afterwards the parish of St. Mary's, Port Elizabeth), in the diocese of Cape Town. Died: Port Elizabeth, on 10 July 1853. 'With Mr. M'Cleland may be said to have ended the old-fashioned 'high and dry' days of S. Mary's - `a state of spiritual slumber' Bishop Gray had called
it" (Wirgman and Mayo). [Bishopscourt Archives, Licences to Clergy, 1848-1963, p. 1. AT Wirgman and CE Mayo, The Collegiate Church and Parish of S. Mary, Port Elizabeth (1925), pp. 7-25. GB Dickason, Irish Settlers to the Cape (1973), pp. 56-57, 61-63, 84. G Churchouse, The Reverend Francis McCleland, Colonial Chaplain to Port Elizabeth 1825-1853 (1976), pp. 12-16. JM Beming, "McClel[l] and, Francis", in The Dictionary of South African Biography, vol. IV (1981), p. 354.]
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1793 - 1853 (60 years)
