Right Revd. George Frederick Hose, D.D. 
Bishop of Singapore and Sarawak, 1881-1908. 
With portrait. 
Bishop Hose was born in 1838 (September 3rd) and 
was educated privately and at St. John’s College Cam- 
bridge. He held the Curacy of Roxton, Beds., 1861-1865, 
and was ordained Priest in 1868. He was at first curate of 
Holy Trinity, Marylebone 1865-1868, and married Emily, 
dauenter ors Kirby, R.C: 8.,°H. EH. 1...C:, in 1867. He be- 
came Chaplain of Malacca in 1868 till 1878, and Chaplain of 
Singapore in 1873, becoming Archdeacon of Singapore in 
1874 till 1881. He was consecrated Bishop of Singapore, 
Labuan and Sarawak on Ascension Day, 1881, in Lambeth 
Palace Chapel by Archbishop Tait assisted by 7 other Bishops 
amongst whom was Bishop McDougall, the Pioneer Bishop of 
Sarawak, a contemporary of Sir James Brooke. He was the 
third Bishop of Sarawak and first of Singapore, and his 
jurisdiction comprised the Straits Settlements, Java, Labuan 
and North Borneo with spiritual superintendence over the 
English Congregations in the Malay Archipelago and Siam. 
The Bishop at the time of his retirement in 1908 had 
thus been a Minister of the Church of England for nearly 50 
years. He had served 40 years in the Far East, and for the 
last 27 years of that period as Bishop over a widely scattered 
and then little known area. Previous to his arrival as a Chap- 
lain the Straits Settlements had been part of the See of Calcutta 
and the Bishop of Calcutta used to visit Singapore and Penang 
about once in 5 years. There were 3 Chaplains—one at each 
station—3 churches, and practically no native congregations 
attached to the Church of England. The Cathedral Church 
in Singapore had then been recently completed (1861). . 
Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc., No. 57, 1910, 
