George Best (priest)

George Best (c. 1793 – 2 May 1829) was a Church of England priest in Maritime Canada.

Best married Elizabeth Stanser, a daughter of Robert Stanser who was the bishop of Nova Scotia, on 21 August 1820.[1] When the diocese of Nova Scotia was divided into four sub-sections, he was selected for one of them and was appointed the first archdeacon of New Brunswick in 1824.[2] This position was under the direction of John Inglis who had succeeded Stanser as bishop. He was also reluctantly the first president of King's College, Fredericton.[1] He was succeeded as archdeacon by George Coster, who was the archdeacon of Newfoundland.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Lee, G. Herbert (1880). An Historical Sketch of The First Fifty Years of the Church of England in New Brunswick. Saint John, New Brunswick: Sun Publishing. p. unpaginated online, see Chapter IV.
  2. ^ Hebb, Ross N. (2004). The Church of England in Loyalist New Brunswick, 1783-1825. Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Presses. p. 195. ISBN 0-8386-4034-6.