Arthur Karney
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The Right Reverend Arthur Karney |
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| Bishop of Johannesburg | |
Arthur Karney
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| Church | Anglican |
| Province | Southern Africa |
| Diocese | Johannesburg |
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| Born | 14 September 1874 |
| Died | 8 December 1963 (aged 89) |
Arthur Baillie Lumsdaine Karney (1874 – 8 December 1963) was the first bishop of Johannesburg in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and the Church of England.
Karney was one of 10 children of Gilbert Sparshott Karney, rector of Emmanuel Church, West Hampstead and Emma Sarah Storrs. He was educated at Haileybury and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1896.
He married Georgina Maude Bessie Fielding in Buenos Aires in 1908 and they had seven children, Peter, Anthony (Tony), Audrey. George, Rosamund, Mary (Molly) and Grace.
One of his older sisters, Evelyn, (1869–1953) founded the Talawa mission in Ceylon.
He was ordained in the Church of England in 1897 and appointed assistant chaplain to the Missions to Seamen at Sunderland. In 1903 he was rector of Woolpit in Suffolk. He had become fascinated in the work of seamen and was sent to work on the staff of the Seaman's Institute in San Francisco then one of the toughest assignments because of the number and state of the seamen arriving after the stormy voyage around Cape Horn. He became involved in protecting young seamen from being 'shanghaied' or 'crimped' and acquired the name of the fighting parson. The San Francisco Institute was destroyed by the earthquake in 1905. In 1906 he was chaplain to the Missions to Seamen in Buenos Aires.
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