Background
Bousfield was born on 27 March 1832, the son of William Cheek Bousfield, a barrister.
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Henry Bousfield
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He was educated at Merchant Taylors" School, Northwood and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Career
Ordained in 1856, his first post was as a curate at All Saints, Braishfield. From 1861 to 1870 he was vicar of Street Maurice Winchester, then rural dean of Andover from 1870 to 1878. He became the inaugural bishop of Pretoria in 1878 holding the post until his death on 10 February 1902.
At the urging of local congregants in Pietersburg (now renamed Polokwane) he sent Christ Church their first rector, the Revd A. Weinstein, in 1895.
Christ Church became a centre of mission work into the northern region of the Anglican Diocese of Pretoria.
