The Rt Rev William Walmsley Sedgwick (1858–1948[1]) was the 5th Anglican Bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand, whose Episcopate spanned a 15-year period during the first half of the 20th century.
Born at Freemantle in Southampton,[2] England, he was educated at St Martin's, York and matriculated in 1879.
[5] He embarked on his career with a curacy at St. John The Baptist, Wateringbury.
[7] He held incumbencies at Hockley Heath in the West Midlands, England, 1886–89; Vryburg, British Bechuanaland, 1889–93; Bedford, Eastern Cape, 1893–96; Evershot, Dorset, 1897–98; and he became the chaplain to the Earl of Home, 1897–1900.
[11] From 1938 until his death in 1948 he was licensed to officiate in the Diocese of Grahamstown, Makhanda, South Africa.