[3] from 1874 to 1896[4] He was born in 1824; educated at Winchester and Corpus Christi College, Oxford; and ordained in 1847.
[5] He began his career with a curacy at St Mary Fittleworth[6] and later was Vicar of Landkey before his appointment to the colonial episcopate.
[7] Since the appointment of any Church of England bishop for Madagascar (i.e. by Queen Victoria) was politically inexpedient, Kestell-Cornish was consecrated by bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church[8] on 2 February 1874.
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