About: John Weeks (bishop)

John Wills Weeks (1799-1857) was the Anglican Bishop of Sierra Leone from 1855 until his death in Sierra Leone two years later. John Weeks was born in Dartmouth, Devon in 1799. A CMS missionary in Sierra Leone from 1825 to 1844 when ill-health caused his return to England, he became incumbent of St Thomas's Church and headmaster of Cranbrook School, Lambeth until his appointment to the episcopate. He became a Doctor of Divinity (DD). On 7 December 1826, Weeks married his first wife Anna Pope, née Haynes, widow of John Pope, a missionary who died after only 6 months of service in Sierra Leone. She predeceased him 10 January 1839. His second wife Phoebe Graham, née Davey, née Goodwin, from Bungay in Suffolk, widow of Henry Graham, died in 1866 and was buried in West Norwood.