Background
Frederick Courtney was born on January 5, 1837 in Plymouth, England United Kingdom. He was a son of Septimus and Elizabeth (Wilshin) Courtney.
Frederick Courtney was born on January 5, 1837 in Plymouth, England United Kingdom. He was a son of Septimus and Elizabeth (Wilshin) Courtney.
From 1845 to 1851 Frederick Courtney was educated at Christ’s Hospital, London, and at King’s College, London, from 1862 to 1864, and received a Theological Associate degree in 1864.
His first post was a curacy at Hadlow, Kent after which he was the incumbent of Charles’s Chapel, Plymouth until 1870 and then Street Jude’s, Glasgow until 1876 when he emigrated to North America. He was an Assistant at Street Thomas’s, New York until 1880 then Rector of Street James’s, Chicago. His last post before elevation to the Episcopate was at Street Paul’s, Boston. After he retired as Bishop of Nova Scotia in 1904, he returned to New York to serve as Rector of Saint James" Church on Madison Avenue, a position from which he retired in 1915.
On July 11, 1865 he married Caroline Louisa Nairn.