Born in Lancashire, England, 26 January 1842, he went to
Jamaica in 1862 as an unordained
missionary of the
Methodist Church. He was
ordained a
priest in the
Anglican Church in 1866, and was
consecrated Bishop of Jamaica in
St Paul's Cathedral in
London in October 1880. The Anglican Province of the West Indies was created in 1884 and held its first provincial synod in Jamaica in October in that year. Nuttall played a leading role in drawing up a
constitution for the province. Bishop
William Piercy Austin of
Guyana was elected the first primate. Nuttall succeeded Bishop Austin as primate in 1892. His title was changed from primate to archbishop in 1897. He died on 31 May 1916. ==References==