Edward Trotter (priest)

Edward Bush Trotter (10 December 1842 – 14 July 1920) was an Anglican Archdeacon in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Trotter was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge and ordained in 1867. After a curacy at Holy Trinity, Habergham Eaves he was Vicar of Alnwick, Northumberland, Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of Northumberland; Chaplain to the Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery;[1] and an Honorary Canon at Newcastle Cathedral.[2]

He was Rector of St Stephen's Savanna Grande, Trinidad from 1890 to 1901;[3] Canon of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Trinidad from 1896 to 1903; and Archdeacon and Vicar general of Trinidad from 1896[4] to 1903.He was Archdeacon of Western Downs[5] and a Canon of Brisbane Cathedral, Queensland from 1903 to 1908 when he was placed in charge of the Anglican congregations throughout Venezuela.[6] He retired to Bournemouth in 1916 and died there four years later.

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  1. ^ London Gazette
  2. ^ Ecclesiastical Appointments The Times (London, England), Thursday, Nov 27, 1884; pg. 10; Issue 31302
  3. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p1446 London, Horace Cox, 1908
  4. ^ Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Thursday, 8 October 1896; pg. 10; Issue 35016
  5. ^ ”The royal progress of our Lord and its significance: being critical and practical thoughts on Luke IX. 51-XVIII Trotter,E.B: London, John Ouseley1912
  6. ^ ‘TROTTER, Rev. Canon Edward Bush’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007 accessed 18 February 2014