Memoirs of the Right Rev. Daniel Corrie, LL.D., first Bishop of Madras

Memoirs of the Right Rev. Daniel Corrie, LL.D., first Bishop of Madras is a rich clerical biography that illuminates the religious, institutional, and imperial worlds of early nineteenth-century British India. Combining personal recollection, correspondence, and devotional reflection, the work traces Corrie's pastoral labors, episcopal responsibilities, and missionary concerns with a prose style at once earnest, restrained, and spiritually introspective. As a specimen of Anglican memoir, it belongs to the tradition of edifying life-writing, yet it also serves as a valuable historical document for the study of colonial ecclesiastical policy and Protestant expansion. Daniel Corrie (1777–1837) was a prominent evangelical churchman whose career in India culminated in his appointment as the first Bishop of Madras. Formed by the evangelical revival within the Church of England, he was deeply committed to pastoral reform, missionary cooperation, and the moral obligations of Christian ministry in colonial settings. These memoirs emerge from that vocation, preserving the record of a life shaped by faith, administration, and sustained engagement with the spiritual challenges of empire. This volume is especially recommended to readers interested in Anglican history, missionary literature, and the religious culture of British India. It rewards both the historian seeking primary insight and the general reader drawn to serious, morally purposeful biography.