Edward Leslie Seager

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Edward Leslie Seager was Archdeacon of Dorset from 1955 to 1974. [1]

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Edward Leslie Seager
Archdeacon of Dorset
In office1955-1974
Predecessor Lancelot Farquharson Addison
Successor Richard Sharp
Personal details
Born5th October 1904
Died2nd November 1983
Denomination Anglican
Education Hatfield College, Durham

Born on 5 October 1904, he was educated at Bromsgrove School and Durham University, becoming ordained in 1929.

Education

Seager attended Durham University, where he was a member of Hatfield College. [2]

He was notably involved with the Durham Union Society and the Durham University History Society. He was secretary of the Durham Union during 1926 and President in the Easter Term of 1927. [3] He was also the first president, and thus likely the founder, of the Durham University History Society, his term lasting the easter term of 1926. [4]

Career

He was Chaplain at Wellington School from 1931 until 1939; and a Chaplain to the Forces from then [5] until 1946. He was Vicar of Gillingham, Dorset from 1946 to 1979, Rural Dean of Shaftesbury from 1951 to 1956; and a Canon of Salisbury Cathedral from 1954 to 1968.

He died on 2 November 1983. [6]

Notes

  1. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN   0-19-200008-X
  2. "Durham University Calendar 1936-7". reed.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  3. Campbell, P. D. A. (1952). A Short History of the Durham Union Society. Durham County Press. p. 17.
  4. "About". DU History Society. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
  5. London Gazette 8 August 1939
  6. ‘SEAGER, Ven Edward Leslie’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 22 Nov 2012


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