Alfred Button

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Alfred Cleave Hammond Button [1] was the Dean of Dunedin from 1945 [2] until 1956. [3]

Button was educated at Selwyn College, Otago and ordained in 1913. After a curacy at St. Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin he was Priest in charge at Lawrence then Vicar of Waimea Plains. He then held further incumbencies at Caversham, Waikouaiti and Roslyn. He was Archdeacon of Central Otago from 1934 to 1945.

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References

  1. ↑ National Library of New Zealand
  2. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1948 p190 London: OUP, 1948
  3. ↑ "Blain's Biographical Directory of Anglican Clergy in the South Pacific" (PDF). anglicanhistory.org. Retrieved 31 July 2016.


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