Sydney Caulton
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The Rt Revd Sydney Gethin Caulton was born in 1898. A graduate of St Chad's College, Durham University, where he gained his M.A., he was ordained in Liverpool in 1922, and remained there until 1930 when he became a missionary in the Diocese of Melanesia.
He arrived in New Zealand in 1937, with his wife and son, to become Vicar of Whakatane, and then Vicar of St Peter's, Onehunga. He was inducted Vicar of St Mary's, and installed as Dean of Auckland in February 1946. On 2nd February 1948 he was consecrated Bishop of Melanesia in the Cathedral Church of St Mary, and based himself in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). On completion of his time in Melanesia he became Assistant Bishop of Auckland and Vicar of the Parish of St George, Epsom.
