Frank Weston (bishop of Zanzibar)
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The Right Reverend Frank Weston SSC OBE |
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| Anglican Bishop of Zanzibar | |
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| Diocese | Zanzibar |
| In office | 1907–1924 |
| Predecessor | John Hine |
| Successor | Thomas Birley |
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| Consecration | 1908 |
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13 September 1871 London, England |
| Died | 2 November 1924 (aged 53) |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Oxford |
Frank Weston SSC OBE (1871–1924) was the Anglican Bishop of Zanzibar from 1907 until his death 16 years later.
Frank Weston was born on 13 September 1871 in South London, the fourth son and fifth child of a tea broker. Born into a clerical family, he was educated at Dulwich College and Trinity College, Oxford, where he obtained a first-class honours degree in theology in 1893. He was ordained a deacon by John Festing, Bishop of St Albans, in 1894 and was ordained a priest in 1895. After serving at the Trinity College Mission in Stratford-atte-Bow in the East End of London from 1894 to 1896, he served at St Matthew's, Westminster, from 1896 to 1898. Weston had earlier applied to join the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) but had been turned down because of poor health. When Archdeacon Woodward of the UMCA came to stay at St Matthew's he encouraged Weston to apply again, this time his health was good enough for the missions. He was to spend the rest of his life in Zanzibar, where, after initially saying of his command of Swahili that "my grammar is bad and my vocabulary is very poor, but my nerve is immense",he eventually "learned to think in Swahili".
A staunch Anglo-Catholic, Weston was the chaplain and then principal of St Andrew's College, additionally serving as chancellor of Zanzibar Cathedral from 1904 to 1908, before being ordained to the episcopate in 1908. He was consecrated bishop in Southwark Cathedral on 18 October the same year. Under his auspices, a Swahili edition of the Book of Common Prayer for use in Zanzibar was issued in 1919.
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