FLOWER, WILLOUGHBY (1858-1914), Anglican clergyman, was born on 22 January 1858 at Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, son of Thomas Simpson Flower, chemist and druggist, and his wife Jane, née Keeling. Although baptized as a Wesleyan Methodist, he received an Anglican schooling. At 20 Flower entered the University of Cambridge with non-collegiate status, a new category designed for impecunious students. With help from the Cambridge Clerical Education Society and his stipend as a lay assistant at St Matthew's, Cambridge, Flower put himself through the university (B.A., 1881; M.A., 1884). After attending the requisite divinity lectures, he was made deacon on 12 June 1881 and ordained priest on 4 June next year by Bishop Woodford of Ely. He remained at St Matthew's as curate until 1885 when he became curate of St Mary's, Twickenham. The parish was in sequestration and Flower was virtually in charge. For an able ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography