Henry Pereira


Henry Horace Pereira was an Anglican Suffragan bishop during the first quarter of the 20th century.
Pereira was born in 1845, educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1869. He served two curacies before becoming the first of the Wilberforce Memorial Mission in South London. Hampshire incumbencies followed before a 30-year association with the Croydon area, firstly as Rural Dean and Suffragan Bishop.
He was Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, and an Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria from January 1900 until her death the following year.
"A man of great energy and a most effective speaker", he died on New Year’s Day, 1926.