Personal and diocesan papers. Personal papers comprise personal correspondence arranged under the headings correspondents and subjects; sermons and addresses which are arranged alphabetically according to subject; miscellaneous items including cuttings, lectures, notes, broadcasts; photographs; diaries. Diocesan papers - these are various series of correspondence and synod addresses.
The Acc22.033 instalment comprises correspondence between Bishop Burgmann and the Diocesan Registrar, Ransome Wyatt from January 1940 to January 1941, copies of seven speeches by Bishop Burgmann, including one handwritten by him, and two black and white photographs of Bishop Burgmann with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II during the Royal Tour of Australia in 1954 and H.R.H. Princess Alexandra during the Royal visit to Australia in 1959.
Ernest Henry Burgmann was born on 9 May 1885 at Lansdowne, near Taree, New South Wales. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1912, was Warden of St. John's College, Armidale, 1918-1925, and became Bishop of Goulburn in 1934. He was Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn, 1950-1960.
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