Augustine Scriven

Augustine Scriven (1852 – 21 July 1916)[1] was an eminent Anglican priest in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth.

[2] He was born in Spernall, Sambourne, Warwickshire[3] and educated at St Mary Hall, Oxford[4] and ordained in 1875.

[5] After curacies at Kirkham and Frindsbury[6] he held incumbencies at Martinhoe[7] and St Peter, Rochester.

In 1884 he became Archdeacon of Vancouver[8] a post he held until his appointment to the episcopate as Bishop of British Columbia in 1915.

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