Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Rawle, Richard

​RAWLE, The Right Rev. Richard, Bishop of Trinidad, was born about 1814, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he became Fellow in 1836, and afterwards Tutor. He graduated B.A. (third wrangler and fourth in the first class of the classical tripos) in 1835, and M.A. in 1838. He became Rector of Cheadle, Staffordshire, in 1839; Principal of Codrington College, Barbadoes, in 1847; Vicar of Felmersham, near Bedford, in 1867; Vicar of Tamworth in 1869; and in 1872, on the election of the clergy and laity, the first Bishop of Trinidad, which had until then, constituted a part of the diocese of Barbadoes. The ceremony of consecration took place in Lichfield Cathedral, June 29, 1872.

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