William Peel (bishop)
William George Peel DD was the Anglican Bishop of Mombasa in what is now Kenya. He was accused of heresy in the Kikuyu controversy.Biography
He was born in 1854, educated at Blackheath Proprietary School, and ordained in 1875. After a Curacy in Trowbridge he went out as a missionary to India where he rose to be Principal of Noble College Masulipatam. Appointment to the episcopate as the third Bishop of Mombasa came in 1899 — he was consecrated a bishop on St Peter's Day 1899 by Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral. He died in post on 15 April 1916.
