105:. The church and parsonage were both badly in need of repairs and restoration, the church was badly attended, and the education of the children neglected. Short, by assiduous visiting and hard work, succeeded in making considerable improvements in all these directions. In December 1835 he married Millecent (or Millicent) Phillips, second daughter of John Phillips of Culham House, Oxfordshire, who survived him with several daughters and a son, Henry Augustus Short. Henry Augustus married Ethel Catherine Edgerton-Warburton (the eldest daughter of Colonel
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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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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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162:Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
122:The Witness of the Spirit with our Spirit
689:Augustus Short, D.D.: Bishop of Adelaide
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461:Dod, Robert P. (1860).
233:Governor Frederick Robe
107:Peter Egerton Warburton
99:William Ewart Gladstone
317:George Wyndham Kennion
310:University of Adelaide
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237:St Peter's Cathedral
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633:"Seventy Years Old"
392:North Road Cemetery
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912:Ian George
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180:Funding
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