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Robert Hay (bishop of Tasmania)

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Name
  
Robert Hay

Role
  
Bishop of Tasmania


Died
  
1943


Education
  
Bishop Barrington School

Robert Snowdon Hay (1867–1943) was the Bishop of Tasmania from 1919 until 1943.

He was educated at Bishop Barrington School and Durham University and ordained in 1894. He then held curacies at Leadgate and South Hylton before emigrating to Australia. He was Rector of Laidley, Queensland then Bundaberg and Warwick. Later he was Dean of Hobart before being ordained to the episcopate. He died on 3 February 1943 and there is a memorial to him at Launceston Grammar School.

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