William Cowper (Dean of Sydney)

Educated by his father and at the University of Oxford, he graduated BA from Magdalen Hall in 1833 and MA in 1835.

Following admission to deacon´s order, he was appointed curate of St Petrox, Dartmouth, and ordained priest at Exeter in 1834.

[1] He returned to Australia in 1836 and was made chaplain at Port Stephens, New South Wales where he remained for 20 years.

[1] He several times acted as commissary for bishops Frederic Barker and Alfred Barry during their absences in England.

Cowper died, aged 91, at the Deanery in Sydney on 14 June 1902,[1] and was buried at St Jude's cemetery, Randwick.