Colenso, John William, 1814-1883 (Personal Name)

His Bringing forth light, 1982: t.p. (John William Colenso; Bishop Colenso) p. xiii (first Bp. of Natal)

LC data base, 9/6/83 (hdg.: Colenso, John William, Bp. of Natal, 1814-1883; usage: J.W. Colenso)

DNB (Colenso, John William, 1814-1883, Bishop of Natal; called Sobantu by the Zulus)

Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 12 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Colenso, John William; Anglican bishop, political activist, theologian; born 24 January 1814 in Saint Austell, Cornwall, England; attended Saint John's College, Cambridge University, (1832-1836), was elected a fellow at Saint John's; published a tract suggesting that polygamy was not in fact prohibited by the Bible (1855), an idea first put to him by Ngidi and other Africans, he aroused the ire of most Europeans in the colony; the climax of his career was the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and its aftermath; the Zulu kingdom had remained independent alongside Natal colony for some forty years; he was was appointed the Anglican bishop of Natal; from his earliest years in Natal he had cultivated a relationship first with the Zulu king Mpande and then with his son and successor Cetshwayo; died 20 June 1883 in Zululand, South Africa)