Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Beckles, Edward Hyndman

by Thompson Cooper

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BECKLES, The Right Rev. Edward Hyndman, D.D., son of the late John Alleyne Beckles, Esq. (descended from the Beckles family of Durham), was born in Barbadoes, in 1816, received his education at Codrington College, Barbadoes, and after holding different cures in the West Indies, was consecrated Bishop of Sierra-Leone in 1859. He resigned that see in 1870, being succeeded in it by Dr. Cheetham. In the same year he was appointed rector of Wootton, Dover, and in 1873, rector of St. Peter's, Bethnal Green, London. In Feb. 1877, he was appointed Superintending Bishop of the English Episcopalian congregations in Scotland.