William Cassels

{{Short description|Anglican missionary bishop}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | name = William Wharton Cassels | image = William Wharton Cassels.png | caption = William Cassels (photography published in 1886 in ''A Missionary Band: A Record and an Appeal'' by Benjamin Broomhall) | title = Bishop of Western China | church = Church in China | diocese = Western China | enthroned = 1895 | term_end = 1925 | successor = Howard Mowll | consecration = 18 October 1895 | consecrated_by = Edward White Benson | birth_date = {{Birth date|1858|03|11|df=yes}} | birth_place = Oporto, Kingdom of Portugal | death_date = {{Death date and age|1925|11|07|1858|03|11|df=yes}} | death_place = Paoning, Szechwan, Republican China | buried = St John's Cathedral, Paoning | nationality = British | religion = Anglican | parents = John Cassels<br />Ethelinda Cox | spouse = Mary Louisa Legg | children = Harold Cassels | alma_mater = {{Plainlist| * Perceval House School * Repton School * St John's College, Cambridge }} }}

'''William Wharton Cassels''' (11 March 1858 – 7 November 1925) was an Anglican missionary bishop.

==Early life and education== Cassels was born in Oporto, Portugal, the sixth son of John Cassels, a merchant, and Ethelinda Cox, a distant relation of Warren Hastings.{{sfn|Broomhall|1926|p=7}} He was educated at Percival House School,{{sfn|Broomhall|1926|p=22}} Repton School<ref>{{cite book |author= |date=1991 |title=Who was Who 1897–1990 |location=London |publisher=A & C Black |isbn=0-7136-3457-X}}</ref> and St John's College, Cambridge.<ref>{{acad|id= CSLS877WW|name=Cassels, William Wharton}}</ref> <gallery mode="packed" heights="150px"> File:William Cassels's family in the Oporto home.png|William Cassels's family in the garden of their Oporto home, 1860s. File:William Cassels 3.png|Cassels when at Percival House School, 1870s. File:William Cassels 4.png|Cassels when at Repton School, 1870s. </gallery>

==Work== He was ordained<ref>{{cite book |author= |date=1941 |title=Crockford's Clerical Directory 1940–1941 |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> deacon (Rochester) on 4 June 1882 and priest on 10 June 1883.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Malden |editor-first=Richard |editor-link=Richard Malden |title=Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) |location=London |publisher=The Field Press |page=269 |year=1920}}</ref> He was a curate at All Saints' South Lambeth from 1882 to 1885. A member of the famous 'Cambridge Seven',<ref>{{cite book |last=Norris |first=Frank L. |author-link=Frank Norris (bishop) |date=1908 |title=Handbooks of English Church Expansion: China |chapter=Chapter X. The Church in Western China |chapter-url=http://anglicanhistory.org/asia/china/flnorris1908/10.html |location=Oxford |publisher=A. R. Mowbray |page=134}}</ref> he joined the China Inland Mission in 1885, together with Arthur T. Polhill-Turner and Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp, the three established a proper Church of England diocese in Szechwan.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Austin |first=Alvyn |date=1996 |title=Missions Dream Team |url=https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/missions-dream-team |magazine=Christian History |location=Worcester, PA |publisher=Christian History Institute |access-date=28 May 2021}}</ref> In 1895, he became the Bishop of Western China (West China Diocese).<ref>{{cite book |author= |date=1900 |title=The Clergy List |location=London |publisher=John Phillips}}</ref> One of the foremost missionaries of his time, who possessed great gifts of organisation, he understood the Chinese and was held in great veneration by them. <gallery mode="packed" heights="250px"> File:The right Rev. Bishop Cassels, D.D. Paoning Fu.png|The right Rev. Bishop Cassels of Paoning Fu, in Qing-dynasty mandarin clothing; photography by Isabella Bird, 1899. File:Anglican mission home in Pao-ning, Sï-ch'uan.png|Bishop Cassels, his wife Mary Louisa Cassels (née Legg) and family, and other missionary workers at their mission home in Paoning; photography by Arthur T. Polhill-Turner, before 1901. </gallery>

==Family and death== Cassels married Mary Louisa Legg, daughter of Edward Legg, at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Shanghai, on 4 October 1887.{{sfn|Broomhall|1926|p=107}} They had several children.{{sfn|Broomhall|1926|p=256}} He died on 7 November 1925 at Paoning, Szechwan,<ref>{{cite news |author= |date=10 November 1925 |title=Death Of Bishop Cassels. Forty Years In China |work=The Times |issue=44115 |location=London |page=13}}</ref> buried in the garden of St John's Cathedral of Paoning. Mrs Cassels died eight days later.{{sfn|Broomhall|1926|p=354}} He had a son Harold Cassels born in Szechwan.

== Publications == * {{cite book |last=Cassels |first=W. W. |date=1898 |title=Wang: A Chinese Christian |edition=new |url=https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11013586_000 |location=London |publisher=Morgan & Scott}} * {{cite book |last=Cassels |first=W. W. |date=1908 |title=The Claims of China on the Church of Christ |series="Day of Opportunity and the C.M.S." series ({{numero|2}}) |location=London |publisher=Church Missionary Society}}

== See also == * Anglicanism in Sichuan

==References== {{Reflist}}

== Bibliography == * {{cite book |last=Broomhall |first=Marshall |author-link=Marshall Broomhall |date=1926 |title=W. W. Cassels: First Bishop in Western China |url=https://archive.org/details/wwcasselsfirstbi00broo |location=London |publisher=The China Inland Mission}}

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