Leslie Williams (Archdeacon of Chester)

Not to be confused with Leslie Williams (Archdeacon of Bristol).

Henry Leslie Williams (26 December 1919 - 2013) was Archdeacon of Chester ^[1] from 1975 to 1988.^[2]

Williams was educated at St David's College, Lampeter and ordained in 1944 following a period of study at St. Michael's College, Llandaff.^[3] After curacies in Aberdovey, Bangor and Chester he was Vicar of Barnston from 1953 to 1984. He was also a Chaplain in the Territorial Army from 1953 to 1962; Rural Dean of Wirral North from 1967 to 1975; an Honorary Canon of Chester Cathedral from 1972 to 1975; and a Member of the General Synod from 1978 to 1988. ^[4]

Notes

↑ Photo of Williams
↑ "WILLIAMS, Henry Leslie (1919 - 2013), Archdeacon of Chester, 1975–88". Who Was Who. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1948 London: Oxford University Press, p 1431
↑ WILLIAMS, Ven. Henry Leslie’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 24 March 2013

Church of England titles
Preceded by Leslie Gravatt Fisher	Archdeacon of Chester 1975–1988	Succeeded by Michael Frederick Gear

Archdeacons of Chester

Early Medieval	Halmar William Robert (I) Richard Peche Adam de Stafford William de Villars Robert (II) Hugh Thomas de Sancto Nicholao Ralph de Maidstone Silvester de Everdon Richard John Basing Simon de Albo Monasterio Adam de Stanford Jordan of Wimborne/de Wimburn Robert de Radewell

Late Medieval	Richard de Havering John de Ufford Michael Northburgh Pedro Cardinal Gòmez de Barroso William de Navesby Nicholas Slake John de Herlaston John Ganville William de Neuhagh Henry de Halsall David Price Richard Stanley John Burdet George Radclyf Sir Edward Stanley Thomas St Just Henry Ince John Morton James Stanley Christopher Talbot Edmund Chaderton, Archdeacon of Salisbury

Early modern	John Vesey Cuthbert Tunstall William Knight John Birde, Bishop of Chester Robert Perceval/Percival (twice) Robert Rogers Cuthbert Bellott George Snell John Carter William Finmore John Allen Edmund Entwisle John Thane Lewis Stephens William Powell Abel Ward George Taylor George Travis Thomas Breithweite

Late modern	Unwin Clarke Isaac Wood Richard Greenall William Pollock Edward Johnson John Darby Edward Barber Paige Cox Norman Tubbs Richard Burne Leslie Fisher Leslie Williams Michael Gear Geoffrey Turner Christopher Hewetson Donald Allister Michael Gilbertson

Diocese of Chester

Chester Cathedral Bishop's House, Chester Church House, Chester St John's, Chester

Office holders	The Bishop of Chester, Peter Forster The Bishop suffragan of Birkenhead, Keith Sinclair The Bishop suffragan of Stockport, Libby Lane AEO: Glyn Webster, Bishop suffragan of Beverley The Dean of Chester, Gordon McPhate The Archdeacon of Chester, Michael Gilbertson The Archdeacon of Macclesfield, Ian Bishop

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