Arthur Rivers

Arthur Richard Rivers (1857–1940) was Dean of Hobart from 1920 to 1940.

[1] 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] Ordained in 1882 Rivers began his career with a curacy in Painswick.

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.