Cecil Wilson

Cecil Wilson (1860-1941) was the third missionary Bishop of Melanesia from 1894 to 1911, and subsequently the second Bishop of Bunbury from 1918 to 1937. An 1882 graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, Wilson served parishes in England before his consecration. He launched the fifth Southern Cross (ship) in 1903 and advocated for the movement of the center of Anglican life in Melanesia to the Solomon Islands from Norfolk Island. 
Wilson is listed in the Calendar of saints (Church of the Province of Melanesia).
==External links==
*Historical documents by Wilson from Project Canterbury
*Melanesian Mission Occasional Paper announcing Wilson's selection as Bishop, 1894.
*The Wake of the Southern Cross: Work and Adventures in the South Seas, by Cecil Wilson 1932.
Category:Bishops of Melanesia
Category:Anglican bishops of Bunbury
Category:Anglican saints
Category:1860 births
Category:1941 deaths