Anson in the late 19th century.Grave of Bishop Adelbert Anson
Adelbert John Robert AnsonDD (20 December 1840 – 27 May 1909) was a clergyman from the Anson family. He served as an Anglicanbishop in late 19th century western Canada.[1]
In his time as Bishop of Qu'Appelle,[6] then in the District of Assiniboia in the North-West Territories and to become part of the Province of Saskatchewan when that was created in 1905, he engendered vast indignation and hostility among local natives and with the headquarters of the then-Church of England in Canada. He openly and publicly declared that it was a vast advantage that his region of the Canadian prairies was blessed with English migrants in addition to trivial native colonials.[7]
Returning to England in 1892 he was Master of St John's Hospital, Lichfield[8] until 1898. He died on 27 May[9] 1909.[10] A controversial figure in his diocese, at least among native Canadian farmers and townspeople, he encouraged the small English community to stand fast and remain aloof from Ontario-born, Country-born, Scottish, Irish, French and aboriginal people.
Anson is buried in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels in Colwich, Staffordshire.
