William Prior (priest)
The Ven. William Henry Prior , AKC was an Anglican priest: the Archdeacon of Bodmin [1] from 1956 [2] until 1961. [3]
Born on 30 September 1883, he was educated at King's College London and ordained in 1908. After a curacy at Chipping Barnet he was the Rector of Beachburg, Ontario[4] then St Barnabas’, Ottawa. Returning to England he was Vicar of Saltash from 1925 to 1956[5] when he took up his Archdeacon’s appointment.
He married Eleanor Rachel, 5th child and 2nd daughter of James Arthur Wellington Foley Butler, 4th Marquess of Ormonde on 1 July 1961; [6] and held the office of Archdeacon Emeritus until his death on 17 November 1969. [7]
Notes
- ↑ National Archives
- ↑ Ecclesiastical News: Appointments The Times(London, England), Tuesday, Sep 25, 1956; pg. 12; Issue 53645
- ↑ Resignation Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Saturday, Oct 14, 1961; pg. 10; Issue 55212
- ↑ ”The Clergy List” London, Kelly’s, 1913
- ↑ PRIOR, Ven. William Henry’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 27 Aug 2012
- ↑ thePeerage.com
- ↑ Deaths The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Nov 19, 1969; pg. 22; Issue 57721
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Archdeacon of Bodmin 1956–1961 |
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