BAGSHAW, JOHN CHARLES, (1820-99) was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, graduating M.A., and was ordained priest (1846). He came to New Zealand in 1856 as headmaster of Nelson College, which position he held till 1858. He had an austere disposition and was a strict disciplinarian. Bagshaw attended the first general synod (1859), and at that and other synods he had strong differences of opinion with Bishop Selwyn. He returned to England and was presented with a living by Selwyn. In 1876 he became vicar of Osbournby, Folkingham, Lincolnshire, where he died in May 1899.

Nelson Coll. Register; Crockett; Jacobs.

Reference: Volume 1, page 30

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