Hamilton Baynes

The Right Reverend Arthur Baynes
Bishop of Natal
Baynes (left)
Church	Anglican Church of Southern Africa
Appointed	1893
Orders
Consecration	29 September 1893
Personal details
Born	Arthur Hamilton Baynes (1854-03-23)23 March 1854
Died	30 June 1942(1942-06-30) (aged 88)

Arthur Hamilton Baynes (23 March 1854 – 30 June 1942)[1] was a Church of England priest and Bishop of Natal and Maritzburg[a] from 1893[2] to 1901.

He was born in Lewisham, Kent, the son of Joseph Ash Baynes and Mary Elizabeth Beard, and following ordination in 1882 was Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, E. W. Benson, from 1888 to 1892.[3] In 1893[4] he was appointed to the bishopric of Natal. During the Boer War, while Bishop of Natal, he was an army chaplain.[5]

After returning to England from Natal, Baynes was Vicar of St Mary's Church, Nottingham, and also an Assistant Bishop of Southwell and an honorary canon of Southwell Minster from 1905 until 1913. During the First World War he was again an army chaplain.[6] From 1913, he was incumbent of Birmingham Cathedral, first as Vicar, then (from 1931) as Provost of Birmingham (and an Assistant Bishop of Birmingham throughout) until his retirement in 1937.

Notes and references

1. He was made Bishop of Maritzburg as a consequence of the Colenso affair

1. "England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription". Retrieved 29 September 2014 – via Findmypast.
2. "Consecration Of Dr. Baynes". Nottingham Evening Post. 30 September 1893. Retrieved 29 September 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
3. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 96.
4. "New Bishop Of Natal". Lichfield Mercury. 19 May 1893. p. 3 col G. Retrieved 29 September 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
5. "Anglo-Boer War records 1899-1902 Transcription". Retrieved 29 September 2014 – via Findmypast.
6. "" "Medal Index Cards Transcription". Retrieved 29 September 2014 – via Findmypast.

External links

• Documents by Arthur Hamilton Baynes from Project Canterbury

Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles
Preceded by William Macrorie	Bishop of Maritzburg 1892–1893	Sees of Maritzburg and Natal reunited
Preceded by John Colenso	Bishop of Natal 1893–1901	Succeeded by Samuel Baines
Church of England titles
Preceded by John Richardson	Vicar of St Mary's Church, Nottingham 1901–1913	Succeeded by Thomas Field
Preceded by himself as Vicar	Provost of Birmingham 1931–1937	Succeeded by Harold Richards