Alfred Ollivant (bishop)

Born in Manchester, he was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge.

[1] He won the Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholarship in 1822 and was elected to a fellowship at Trinity College.

He returned to Cambridge in 1843 as Regius Professor of Divinity, but in 1849 he was nominated to the see of Llandaff, primarily because of his knowledge of Wales and of the Welsh language.

Ollivant was instrumental in the move to construct churches (often by private benefactions from industrialists and landowners) in the newly populated areas of his diocese.

A good example was St Elvan's Church, Aberdare, where Ollivant officiated at the opening services in 1852.