Percy Haggitt

The Very Rev Percy Bolton Haggitt (1878-1957) was the Dean of Nelson^[1] from 1934^[2] until his death.

Haggitt was educated at the University of New Zealand and ordained in 1903. His first posts were curacies in Christchurch. He was Vicar of St John St Albans in the same city from 1906 to 1911, and then St Mary, Merivale.^[3] He was Archdeacon of Christchurch from 1918 until his appointment as Dean.^[4]

References

1. Roll of HOnour
2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947-48 p543 Oxford, OUP, 1929
3. Christchurch Libraries
4. ‘HAGGITT, Very Rev. Percy Bolton’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 7 Nov 2014