William Wand
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The Right Reverend and Right Honourable William Wand KCVO PC |
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| Bishop of London | |
Wand as Archbishop of Brisbane
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| Church | Church of England |
| Province | Province of Canterbury |
| Diocese | Diocese of London |
| In office | 1945–1955 |
| Predecessor | Geoffrey Fisher |
| Successor | Henry Montgomery Campbell |
| Other posts |
Bishop of Bath and Wells (1943–1945) Archbishop of Brisbane (1934–1943) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1908 (deacon) 1909 (priest) |
| Consecration | 1 May 1934 |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | John William Charles Wand |
| Born | 25 January 1885 |
| Died | 16 August 1977 (aged 92) |
| Nationality | English |
| Denomination | Anglicanism |
| Spouse | Amy Agnes Wiggins (m. 1911; d. 1966) |
| Education | The King's School, Grantham |
| Alma mater |
St Edmund Hall, Oxford Bishop Jacob Hostel |
John William Charles Wand, KCVO, PC (25 January 1885 – 16 August 1977) was an English Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of Brisbane in Australia before returning to England to become the Bishop of Bath and Wells before becoming the Bishop of London.
William Wand was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, the son of Arthur James Henry Wand, a butcher, and his wife Elizabeth Ann Ovelin, née Turner. Despite Wand's father being a staunch Calvinist, his mother brought him up in the Church of England. Educated at The King's School, Grantham and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in theology (BA, 1907; MA, 1911), he prepared for ordination at Bishop Jacob Hostel, Newcastle upon Tyne and was ordained a deacon in 1908 and a priest in 1909. He served curacies at Benwell and Lancaster. On 11 October 1911 he married Amy Agnes Wiggins (d.1966) at St Leonard's parish church in Watlington, Oxfordshire.
Wand was appointed vicar-choral of the Diocese of Salisbury in 1914. On the outbreak World War I he enlisted as a military chaplain and reached Gallipoli in July 1915. He was a chaplain to the 2nd Australian Hospital and, after being invalided home with paratyphoid fever, served in France.
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