Robert Machray

Robert Machray (born May 17, 1831, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scot.—died March 9, 1904, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Can.) was a Scottish-born archbishop of Rupert’s Land in northern and western Canada. He studied at Aberdeen and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and became a Church of England priest in 1856. He was elected to a fellowship at Cambridge, remaining there until 1865, when he was made bishop of Rupert’s Land with headquarters in Winnipeg. The diocese was then thinly...