Arthur Rivers
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Early life
[edit | edit source]Rivers was born in Teignmouth and educated at St John's College, Oxford.[3] His younger brother was Richard Godfrey Rivers, an artist and gallery curator.[4]
Religious life
[edit | edit source]Ordained in 1882 Rivers began his career with a curacy in Painswick. Emigrating to Australia he was Precentor of Sydney Cathedral and Chaplain to the Primate of Australia. Moving to Queensland he was Rector of St Michael, Brisbane and then St Andrew in the same city. He was Archdeacon of Burnett and Wide Bay from 1896 to 1905; and of Toowoomba from then[5] until his appointment as Dean of Hobert.
Later life
[edit | edit source]Rivers died on 1 November 1940.
References
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- ^ ‘RIVERS, Very Rev. Arthur Richard’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 4 Nov 2013
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- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30: Oxford, OUP, 1929
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