Foster Blackburne

Foster Grey Blackburne, MA (b Prestwich, 3 December 1838- d 1 February 1909^[1]) was Archdeacon of Manchester^[2] from 1905 until his death.^[3]

He was educated at Marlborough and Brasenose College, Oxford^[4] and ordained in 1863.^[5] He began his ecclesiastical career with curacies in Bebbington and Chester. After this he was Rector of Nantwich^[6] from 1872^[7] to 1894; and then of Bury^[8] from 1894^[9] until his death.^[10]

References

1. Cricket Archive
2. London Gazette
3. ‘The Archdeacon Of Manchester’ The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Feb 02, 1909; pg. 11; Issue 38872
4. ‘UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE’ Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, December 7, 1861; Issue 5667
5. ’ORDINATION AT CHESTER CATHEDRAL’ Cheshire Observer and General Advertiser: for Cheshire and North Wales (Chester, England), Saturday, June 06, 1863; pg. 2; Issue 479
6. “A history of the town and parish of Nantwich in the county palatine of Chester” Hall,J: Nantwich, T. Johnson, 1883
7. ‘Ecclesiastical and Religious’ The Derby Mercury (Derby, England), Wednesday, March 20, 1872; Issue 8226
8. British History On-line
9. ‘Ecclesiastical Intelligence’ The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Jan 17, 1894; pg. 6; Issue 34163
10. ‘BLACKBURNE, Rev. Foster Grey’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 23 June 2013