John Wellington

The Right Reverend John Wellington was an Anglican missionary bishop in China during the first half of the 20th century.

[1] Educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Wimborne and at Salisbury Theological College, he was ordained in 1913.

He served as curate at St Martin's, Salisbury before heading to China as a missionary.

From 1940[2] to 1950 he served as the last Anglican Bishop of Shantung (before the Church was nationalised by the Communists).

[3] Returning to England, he was Vicar of St Germans, Cornwall and Assistant Bishop of Truro; and, in 1953, became Archdeacon of Bodmin.