Clarendon Worrell


Clarendon Lamb Worrell was the 5th Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.

Clarendon Lamb Worrell was born on July 20, 1853 at Smiths Falls, Ontario to the Reverend Canon John Worrell and Elizabeth Lamb. His early education was received from local Smiths Falls schools until the age of 17, when he entered the newly relocated Trinity College School at Port Hope. In the six months he was there, Worrell became a very accomplished student, achieving the distinction of head boy. In June 1873 he graduated from the University of Trinity College with honours, bringing with him a host of awards and scholarships he had achieved at Trinity College, especially in the field of mathematics. That September, Worrell joined Bishops College School as the mathematics master, leaving there in 1875 to take up a position at Hellmuth College, London, under headmaster Arthur Sweatman, who, along with Worrell, would also become Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. The next year, Worrell left Hellmuth to join a school in Hamilton, Ontario. After the position in Hamilton, Worrell t

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