Tags: Christian Bishop.
The Rt Rev Henry Bindley Sidwell (1857 – 1936) was the inaugural Bishop of George the first South African-born Bishop to head a diocese.He was born in Grahamstown and educated at the University of the Cape of Good Hope. Ordained in 1889 he began his career with a curacy in Johannesburg after which he was Rector of Middleburg and then Archdeacon of Pretoria before his elevation to the Episcopate. He died in post on 31 August 1936.