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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.

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

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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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