Gerard Trower

[6][7] During his short term as rector, a Sung Eucharist became the rule for Sundays and the parish acquired several sets of vestments.

His former parishioners at Christ Church St Laurence gave him a gold pectoral cross,[10] and he received the honorary degree Doctor of Divinity (DD) from the University of Oxford.

[11] He was consecrated as Bishop of Likoma by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Frederick Temple, in Westminster Abbey, on 25 January 1902,[12] and arrived in his diocese later that year.

The bishopric of Likoma in Nyasaland (now Malawi) was part of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, started at the suggestion of David Livingstone.

[14] Trower left Likoma in 1910 to take up the oversight of the new Diocese of North West Australia on the insistence of an old friend, Charles Riley, the Bishop of Perth.