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5 unusual facts about William Edward Addis


Charles Strong

Strong accepted William Edward Addis, a former Glasgow classmate, as assistant minister in 1888.

William Addis

William Edward Addis (1844–1917), Scottish-born Australian colonial clergyman

William Edward Addis

In 1888 he resigned the priesthood, after issuing a circular to his parishioners announcing his abjuration of Roman Catholic doctrines, and was married, at St. John's, Notting Hill, to Miss Mary Rachel Flood.

He left the Oratory, and became priest in charge of Lower Sydenham.

Addis was the author of Anglicanism and the Fathers, Anglican Misrepresentation, and of the "Catholic Dictionary" (London, 1883) compiled in conjunction with Thomas Arnold,.



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