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In 1856 he instigated, with the support of
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with his wife and children. There he obtained counsels' opinion, which agreed that it was competent for a colonial diocese to organise itself without
Imperial authority. The constitution was submitted in October 1855 to a diocesan assembly and was adopted. In 1856 the diocese of
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spelled "Melicent" on her baptism certificate, "Milicent" on an application relating to their marriage. She usually spelled her name "Millecent", occasionally "Millicent". Their elder daughter
Millecent married George
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Adelaide on 1 September and arrived on 28 December 1847, the eleventh anniversary of the proclamation of the colony. There were then only five churches in the diocese, three at Adelaide, one at
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Augustus Short: First Bishop of Adelaide. A Chapter of Colonial Church History
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when it was founded in 1874, and chancellor in 1876.
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177:1847 portrait painting of Bishop Augustus Short.
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962:People educated at Westminster School, London
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193:Perth, Western Australia
450:Dod, Robert P. (1860).
222:Governor Frederick Robe
96:Peter Egerton Warburton
88:William Ewart Gladstone
306:George Wyndham Kennion
299:University of Adelaide
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232:Late career and death
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84:Abingdon, Oxfordshire
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43:Early life and career
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540:"Local Intelligence"
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226:St Peter's Cathedral
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627:The News (Adelaide)
622:"Seventy Years Old"
381:North Road Cemetery
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228:on 1 January 1878.
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