Biography:

Episcopal priest. Born– June 3, 1851, Prince George County, Va. Parents– Thomas Stanley and Agnes (Ruffin) Beckwith. Married– Rainsford Fairbanks, 1884 (died 1885);  Lucy Cocke, 1888 (died 1892). Children– One. Married– Mary Belle Cameron, May 11, 1897. Education– University of Georgia, 1873. Berkeley Divinity School, Middleton, CT, graduated 1881. Master of the grammar schools of the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., for six years.  Ordained priest in 1881; rector of churches in Atlanta, Houston, and Galveston; elected assistant bishop of Texas but declined the honor; elected the fourth Episcopal bishop of Alabama, 1902. Died April 18, 1928

Source:

Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1 and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 13.

Publication(s):

The Church School in the Book of Common Prayer. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1928.

Rightly Instructed in God’s Holy Word. New York; T. Whittaker, 1905.

The Teacher’s Companion to the Trinity Course. New York; E. S. Gorham, 1902.

The Trinity Course of Church Instruction. New York; T. Whittaker, 1901.