The Rt Rev John Francis Welsh, CBE[1] was Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago[2] from 1918 until 1945; and for his last two years there Primate of the West Indies [3]. He was born in 1872[4] and educated at Charterhouse [5] and Keble College, Oxford. After graduation he was ordained in 1898[6] and began his ecclesiastical career with curacies at Aylesbury and Bedminster. From 1904 he was Principal of St Boniface Missionary College, Warminster and after that (until his elevation to the Episcopate) Chaplain to the Bishop of Barbados[7]. He died on 13 November 1955 [8]. There is a school named after him in Port of Spain[9].
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