Francis Austin (priest)

Francis Webster Austin (4 February 1829, Clapham, Surrey – 1905, Abingdon) was an Anglo-Guyanese clergyman, Dean of St George's Cathedral, Georgetown, British Guiana from 1884 until 1890.

[2] Ordained deacon in 1856, he was briefly Curate of St Nicholas, Cardiff before emigrating to British Guiana.

[1] Initially Diocesan Registrar he was then successively: Rural Dean of Berbice;[3] Archdeacon of Berbice from 1883 to 1884; and concurrently Archdeacon of Demerara and Dean of Georgetown from 1884 to 1890.

[5] Returning to England Austin became Rector of West Ilsley, Berkshire in 1892.

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