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in some measure to Gray’s inspiration, and other schools of a similar character elsewhere, in

parishes and mission districts up and down the country multitudes of schools have been
founded, and at first almost entirely maintained, by the Church, with the object of providing

elementary education for those children who otherwise would have received none; in course
of time too the Church established colleges for the training of those who would teach in its

schools [the most famous of which was probably the Kaffir Institution, begun at Bishop’s
Court, and later known as the Native College and Industrial School, or Zonnebloem

College].” (Hunter, p. 7.)

Litigant

On 23 November 1853 the Bishop formally resigned his diocese in order to facilitate its
reconstitution as a metropolitical see, with jurisdiction over Grahamstown and Natal. He

received fresh letters patent from the Crown creating him Lord Bishop of Cape Town and
first Metropolitan of the Church of the Province of South Africa on 8 December.

During the next ten years he would be embroiled in a series of conflicts in which he would

exercise his jurisdiction as metropolitan and bishop over members of his clergy and one of
his suffragans, but with only limited success.

Paddy Lamb

At the annual meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary of the Colonial Church and School Society,

in June 1854, R. G. Lamb, incumbent of Trinity Church, Cape Town, attended as one of the
deputation. An abstract of his speech on that occasion appeared in the Liverpool papers; one

of these (the Courier) was forwarded to Robert Gray. Lamb was reported to have told the
meeting that the work of their society “was interrupted by the spread of dangerous doctrines,

and as an instance of that, he cited the case of a gentleman … who, under the pretence of
teaching Christian doctrine, lent a book to a young woman: it professed to be the confession