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Born on 26 September 1856 at Dromore, County Down, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1879.
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Thomas Sprott
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Following curacies at Holy Trinity, Kingston-on-Hull and Street John the Evangelist, Waterloo Road, he became Minister of Street Barnabas’, Mount Eden, Auckland in 1886. From 1892 until 1911 Sprott was Vicar of Street Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, Wellington when he was elevated to the Episcopate as the 4th Bishop of Wellington, a post he held for 25 years. Described as a “a profound divine who for years tried to fathom the deeps of modern reasoning", he died on 25 July 1942.
Sprott House, a residential home for the elderly in Wellington, New Zealand, is named for him.
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