Bertram Kite

The Very Rev Joseph Bertram Kite,^[1] (21 January 1857 – 15 September 1939) was the fourth Dean of Hobart, serving from 1897^[2] to 1916.^[3]

Born into an ecclesiastical family,^[4] he was educated at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School,^[5]Marlborough^[6] and Keble College, Oxford.^[7]

He was ordained in 1882;^[8] and began his ecclesiastical career as Curate of St Michael and All Angels, Bromley-by-Bow. He was Curate in charge of Christ Church, Isle of Dogs from 1887 to^[9] 1894;^[10] and Rector of Billingford from 1894^[11] to 1897 before his time as Dean; and Vicar of St Peter’s Church, Ealing after.^[12]

References

1. Daily News (London, England), Tuesday, October 12, 1897; Issue 16082
2. Tasmanian Anglican
3. Trove
4. His father was The Rev. F. R. Kite ‘KITE, Rev. Joseph Bertram’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 5 Nov 2013
5. The Bury and Norwich Post, and Suffolk Herald (Bury Saint Edmunds, England), Tuesday, December 13, 1870; pg. 5; Issue 4616
6. University Intelligence The Times (London, England), Thursday, Mar 30, 1876; pg. 8; Issue 28590
7. University Intelligence The Times (London, England), Monday, May 23, 1881; pg. 13; Issue 30201
8. Ordinations, London The Times (London, England), Tuesday, May 22, 1883; pg. 4; Issue 30826
9. During this time he married Edith née Corrie in 1892 > “Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries” The Standard (London, England), Thursday, June 16, 1892; pg. [1]; Issue 21200
10. Police The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Feb 16, 1892; pg. 3; Issue 33562
11. ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENTS The Standard (London, England), Thursday, October 11, 1894; pg. 8; Issue 21926
12. Legal notices The Times (London, England), Friday, Oct 27, 1939; pg. 1; Issue 48447