Canterbury’s First Anglican Bishop Died – 28th December 1893
“He was the right man in the right place.” – Charles Orbin Torlesse, Canterbury Association Surveyor. Bishop Henry James Chitty Harper would have been very delighted to have seen the face of his old friend, Bishop George Augustus Selwyn, upon his arrival in Lyttelton in 1856. Selwyn didn’t wait for the Harper family to come …
