Geoffrey Gower-Jones

Geoffrey Gower-Jones(30 April 1910 – 5 November 1982) was Archdeacon of Lancaster from 1966 to 1980.

He was born into an ecclesiastical family[1] educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and ordained in 1934. [2] After curacies in Royton and Prestwich he became Vicar of Belfield in 1943; and then of St Stephen-on-the-Cliffs, Blackpool [3] before his archdeacon’s appointment.

References

  1. His father was theRev William Gower-Jones, sometime Vicar of Wingates > ‘GOWER-JONES, Ven. Geoffrey’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 12 June 2013
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  3. Church web site
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Charles Lambert
Archdeacon of Lancaster
1966–1980
Succeeded by
Ken Gibbons
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