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- [S1] MWS, Andries William De Villiers, (University of Witwatersrand).
Educated: Maynooth, in Ireland. Married: Sarah Quinn [maiden surname unknown]. Ordained: Deacon, by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clonfert. Career: Priest of the Roman Catholic parish of Tagh Ma Connel, Ireland. ''[R]eceived into the Anglican communion by Archbishop Sumner, when Bishop of Chester, and was licensed as curate for a parish in Macclesfield. After some years' experience in England, he offered his services in 1849 to the Bishop of Cape Town ..." (The Church News). Arrived at the Cape, 1850. Missionary (SPG), and Curate of Cape Town (licensed 26 December 1851); Gaol Chaplain, and acting Garrison Chaplain, Cape Town (from 1854), all in the diocese of Cape Town. Attended the first synod of the diocese of Cape Town, January 1857. Died: The Castle, Cape Town, on 21 [Death Notice] or 22 [The Church News] December 1875. "[He] was very opposed to the views and opinions usually associated with the term `Ultramontanism,' - opinions, he has been heard to declare, which were altogether unknown at Maynooth in his student days. It was the introduction and gradual dissemination of these views in Ireland which first rendered Mr. Quinn dissatisfied with his position as a member of the Roman Catholic communion. Finally he determined to join the Church of England. ... As curate to Dean Newman, at the Cathedral, it was his duty to begin with energy and success the work in what is now the parish of S. Mary, Papendorp. At a later date, and, as a labour of love, he did similar pioneer work in what is now the flourishing district of S. Mark, Capetown. About twenty years ago he was appointed to act as military chaplain, a position which he continued to hold until a short period before his death. ... He leaves a widow and two daughters" (The Church News). [Archives of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, AB 1159Fol, Records of the Diocese of Cape Town, 1847-1865, p. cxxxix, clix. Bishopscourt Archives, Licences to Clergy, 1848-1963, p. 2. Clergy List, 1854, p. 340. The Cape of Good Hope Almanac ... for 1853, p. 144; 1855, p. 127 [there is a manuscript note on the copy held in the South African library "act. mil. chap']; 1859, p. 114; 1860, p. 111. The Cape Town Directory for 1865, p. 110. The Church News, no. 99 (5 January 1876), p. 8. Estate Papers, Cape Archives, MOOC 6/9/153, number 2328. CF Pascoe, Two Hundred Years of the S.P.G. (1901), p. 893.]
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