priesthood in Halifax by Bishop Binney. After ten years of service at New London he went to Sydney Mines as Rector of Trinity Church, and he re— mained there until his death in 1870.

Mr: Meek was highly respected by the Newfoundland School Society and the soc1eties With which it merged. His journals and letters printed in the publications of these societies are picturesque and homely in style and depict the life and work of a holy and humble man. A copy of his only printed ser- mon, preserved in the Nova Scotia Archives, is entitled:—“For a Small Parish in Newfoundland; a Plain Sermon to Plain People. By Rev. W. Meeke. Breached by the Author, at St. George’s Church in this City, and with his diffident consent, published by one of the congregation. Halifax, N.S., 1845.” The Diocesan Church Society Report for 1871 remarks:— “He may be called the Island Misszonary for his long career of usefulness has been wholly spent in the Islands of Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton.”

An obituary notice in The Islander, October 2, 1870, states:— “During a long, useful, and until recently arduous ministry, the Rev. William Meek fulfilled the sacred trust committed to him as a Priest in the Church of God, With an eye single to the glory of his Redeemer and the salvation of immortal sou s.

Descendants of William Meek live in New London today.

JAMES ARMINIUS RICHEY

James Arminius Richey was born in Montreal, July 3, 1836. Part of his early education was gained at Upper Canada College, Toronto, which he entered in 1850. He was ordained deacon in 1863 and priest in 1866, by Bishop Binney. During these years he was incumbent of New London. He served subsequently in Nova Scotia at Maitland (1867-1870), Tangier (1870- 1880), and Seaforth, where he died, January 23, 1890.

Mr. Richey kept his pen employed. He contributed to literary journals and church papers. In 1857 he published in Montreal A Series of Poems. In 1869 Fragments and Verses appeared; in 1877 More Half-hours; in 1882 and 1886 Verses Devotional and Miscellaneous, published at Halifax.

The Reverend Dr. Matthew Richey, father of J. A. Richey, was principal of Upper Canada Academy, Cobourg, Ontario, and was successively president of the Canada Methodist Conference and the Methodist Conference of Eastern North America. Theophilus, another son also ordained deacon in 1863, was incumbent of Georgetown, 1866-1871, and of St. Eleanor’s, 1879-1883. A third son served as Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, 1883-1888.

Bishop Binney wrote of James Arminius Richeyz—“He has left a record of diligent work, conscientious teaching, able and convincing preaching; which we may hope will tell upon the people to whom he ministered, and which is a precious legacy to his children.”

JOHN HERBERT READ

John Herbert Read, son of Tobias Read, Schoolmaster, of Madron, Corn— wall, and his wife, Mary Ann, was born March 10, 1816. He was admitted a ‘sizar’ at St. John’s College, Cambridge, June 27, 1840, but apparently he did not proceed to his degree. He entered King’s College, Fredericton, (now the University of New Brunswick) in 1846, received his B.D. in 1852, and took his D.D., in course, in 1857. He was ordained deacon by the Bishop of London, December 18, 1842, and priest by the Bishop of Nova Scotia, 1844. In 1843 he served at Murray Harbour. From 1844 to 1851 he was stationed at West- moreland Harbour (Crapaud), and from 1851 to 1864 at St. Eleanor’s. From 1865 until his final return to England in 1884 he was Rector of Milton, and from 1860, Archdeacon of Prince Edward Island, being the first to hold that office. He died, December 14, 1886, at Penzance in Cornwall. His wife, Mary Argall, died in 1883 and is buried in Sherwood Cemetery.

During Dr. Read’s incumbency of St. Eleanor’s he organized the Barrett’s Cross congregation, and he was responsible for the building of the first St. Mark’s, Kensington. The fact that several parents chose the names» Herbert Read for their sons is a testimony to the respect in which he was held, He was a frequent visitor to the New London rectory, and he conducted services in the parish during vacancies. It is reported of him that he was “a very stern man with very decided views”, and that “he never hesitated to do what he considered his duty.”

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