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(By Reve r e nd Can on Smi t h, 1909)
I t 11!! twen ty ye ars si nce I 'pa i d my last visit to Tr1.Dity. I had then been
11v1Dg nea r ly four yeorlJ at Portugal Cove .
Si nce 1889 , first the ol d Church ill
vh1cb I preached on the last Sund2t7 evening in Oct obGr ot t hat ye ar- then t he- old
Court uecee have passed sway, and now the old School House Is to follow.
The Naval Officer vho Is aai d to ha ve c ommanded
tM man-of_war at Trinity
when the frame of the old Schoo l
House vas brought out of t he f or est , we
probab~ "Pa r -eon Bullockl s llbrother, c apta1Jl, . aftervards Admiral Bullock.
He sp ent
over t en years in makin g a survey of t he coa st. His first visit was paid 1n 181 8,
when he ca me out in c ommand of M.H. brig "S nap" J
having sec ond in eceeena his
brot her, William, aftervards the Parson, but t hen 8 Junior lieutenant in the Royal
Navy. In 1820 Lieutenant Bullock left t he Roya l Navy and studied for bbe C'-:urch .
0Jl March 31st., 1822, he vee ordained deacon by the Bi sh op of Chester, and
a fortright.
later advan ced
to the priesthood by the Bishop of L1Dcoln, acting tor the
Bi shop or London", for the cur" of souls 1D. His r·:a.j esty ' B foreign po ssessions".
That
year Parson Bullock took.:.uphis r&lddenee at TriJdt,., and in ~Oetober.lll3XTied
Miss Mary Clinch, only daughter or Reverend John Cll.ncb, M.D.
Mr. Clinch died at
Tr inity in November 1819. Parson Bullock must have been a very active man and
dil1gen.t ehur-cb-vcrker-, si.co during the rirst twelve orhis eigbieen ' yearB ~ .1ncumb..;;- · ---- ...,,
ca cy of Trinity he built 8
large nev Clmrch--01d St. Pau1's--a (for a long time)
lar ge nev School Hous e , and a nov per-sonege-c-tbe present building a t Trinity.
There bad been. in previous years occBl!Jlonally B teacher at Trln.lty, employed
aa d pa i d by S.P.G.
In 1823, Mr. Samuel COODer foundeal the Newfoundland School
S.clety, now the Colonial a nd Contlnea.tal Church Soc i ety . The old School at Trin.itY'
a ."" to be pulledd d.own \188 OD e .r the Society's first schools in Ne....f oundlal:ld.
their firat t eacher 'W9.l!J Mr., aftervard Rev er end BenjamibFleot . He ca me t.
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