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Wilfrid Bird Hornby was an Anglican colonial bishop at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.Born on 25 February 1851 and educated at Marlborough and Brasenose College Oxford he was ordained in 1876. In 1880 he went on the Oxford Mission to Calcutta returning in 1884. From 1885 to 1992 he was Vicar of St Columba’s Southwick Sunderland when he was elevated to the Episcopate as Bishop of Nyasaland.