[3] Born into a noble family on 12 August 1861,[4] Wilmot Vyvyan was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he graduated in 1883.

[5] Ordained in 1888,[6] he was curate at the Charterhouse Mission, St Hugh's, Southwark, becoming its priest in charge from 1892 until 1901,[7] when he emigrated to South Africa.

Here he was mission priest at Isandhlwana before elevation to the episcopate as the fourth bishop of Zululand in January 1903,[8] a post he was to hold for 26 years.

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