Christopher Spafford

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Christopher Garnett Howsin Spafford (1924-2011) was Provost of Newcastle from 1976 [1] to 1989.

Spafford was born into an ecclesiastical family [2] on 10 September 1924, educated at Marlborough College and St John's College, Oxford and ordained in 1950. [3] After curacies at Brighouse and Huddersfield he held incumbencies at Hebden Bridge, Thornhill and Shrewsbury. [4] He was Provost of Newcastle Cathedral from 1976 to 1989. [5]

Reverend Christopher Spafford died in September 2011. [6]

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References

  1. Newcastle Libraries Archived 2011-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
  2. His father was the Rev. Canon Douglas Norman Spafford, sometime Vicar of Walton-on-the-Hill > Crockford's Clerical Directory 1948 Oxford, OUP, 1947
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN   0-19-200008-X
  4. Who's Who 1996 London A & C Black, 1995 ISBN   0-7136-4255-6]
  5. ancestral-indexes
  6. "St Chad' s, Shrewsbury". www.ukpressonline.co.uk/. ukpressonline. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
Church of England titles
Preceded by Provost of Newcastle
1976 1989
Succeeded by