Isaac Hellmuth

Isaac was born in Poland in 1819 into a Jewish family and educated at the University of Breslau.

He studied for his ordination and, because of his prior education, soon had an appointment to Bishop's University (Bishop's College) in Lennoxville where he was ordained and became a professor of Hebrew and rabbinical literature.

In 1854 he returned to England and became organizing secretary in London for the Colonial Church and School Society but was asked by the Society to move back to Canada in 1856 as a Superintendent.

He resigned in 1861 and was collated Archdeacon of Huron by Bishop Benjamin Cronyn.

He was the first principal of the college until 1866, when he was appointed Dean of Huron.