Edward Trotter (priest)

Edward Bush Trotter (10 December 1842 – 14 July 1920) was an Anglican Archdeacon in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Trotter was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge and ordained in 1867. After a curacy at Holy Trinity, Habergham Eaves he was Vicar of Alnwick, Northumberland, Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of Northumberland; Chaplain to the Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery;^[1] and an Honorary Canon at Newcastle Cathedral.^[2]

He was Rector of St Stephen's Savanna Grande, Trinidad from 1890 to 1901;^[3] Canon of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Trinidad from 1896 to 1903; and Archdeacon and Vicar general of Trinidad from 1896^[4] to 1903.He was Archdeacon of Western Downs^[5] and a Canon of Brisbane Cathedral, Queensland from 1903 to 1908 when he was placed in charge of the Anglican congregations throughout Venezuela.^[6] He retired to Bournemouth in 1916 and died there four years later.

See also

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