Walter Tribe

The Ven Walter Harry Tribe, MA (1832-1909)[1] was Archdeacon of Lahore[2] from 1885 to 1892.[3]

He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford[4] and ordained in 1857. After a Curacy at Broughton, Hampshire he was Rector of Stockbridge from 1860 to 1867. Following this he served in the North West Frontier. He was at, successively, Bareilly, Agra, Delhi, Allahabad, Sealkote, Rawalpindi and Simla before his time as Archdeacon. Afterwards he was the Chaplain at Algiers from 1894 to 1895 when he became Vicar of Awliscombe.[5]

In 1861 he married Sophy Lander[6] and they had two children: Charles who died during the First World War;[7] and Mary[8] a notable aviator and ornithologist.

Notes

  1. OBITUARY The Rev W.H. Tribe The Times (London, England), Wednesday, May 19, 1909; pg. 13; Issue 38963
  2. Genealogical web-site
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p1444: London, Horace Cox, 1908
  4. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Tuesday, December 19, 1854; Issue 27451
  5. ECCLESIASTICAL NEWS Yorkshire Herald, Saturday, October 05, 1895; pg. 3; Issue 13823
  6. 'UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGIENCE Clergymen married' Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, July 20, 1861; Issue 5647
  7. CWGC
  8. thePeerage.com
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Inaugural appointment
Archdeacon of Lahore
1885–1892
Succeeded by
Andrew Spens


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