Hibbert Binney

Hibbert Binney (12 August 1819 – 30 April 1887) was a Canadian Church of England bishop.

[1] The family lived at Mound House, 11 Holland Park Avenue, north Kensington.

He was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Oxford Richard Bagot in 1842 and was appointed a fellow of Worcester College.

In 1851, Binney was named Bishop of Nova Scotia and was consecrated in London by Archbishop John Bird Sumner of Canterbury and assisted by Bishops Blomfield of London, Wilberforce of Oxford, and Gilbert of Chichester.

Binney lived for years with Rosina in what is now known as the Black-Binney House, which is now a national historic site.

Black-Binney House , Halifax, Nova Scotia