Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Bond, William Bennett
BOND, The Right Rev. William Bennett, M.A., LL.D., Bishop of Montreal, was born at Truro, in Cornwall, England, in 1815. He received his education in various public and private schools in Cornwall and in London, and at an early age emigrated to Newfoundland, where he studied for the ministry, and at Montreal, to which he had meantime repaired, was in 1841 ordained a priest. For several years, under the direction of the late Bishop Mountain, of Quebec, he organised many mission stations in the Eastern Townships of the French Province, and finally took charge of the parish of St. George's, Montreal. He maintained his connection with this parish for the long period of thirty years, successively becoming archdeacon of Hochelaga and Dean of Montreal. On the resignation of Bishop Oxenden, he was in 1879 elected by the synod of the diocese to the bishopric of Montreal. Bishop Bond is President of the Theological College of the Diocese of Montreal, and is an LL.D. of the University of McGill College.