Joe Randolph "J. R." Ackerley was a British writer and editor. Starting with the BBC the year after its founding in 1927,he was promoted to literary editor of The Listener, its weekly magazine,where he served for more than two decades. He published many emerging poets and writers who became influential in Great Britain. He was openly homosexual,a rarity in his time when homosexual activity was forbidden by law and socially ostracised.
John Saul Howson,British divine,was born at Giggleswick-on-Craven,Yorkshire.
Philip Blake Morrison FRSL is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He has also written a study of the murder of James Bulger,As If. Since 2003,Morrison has been Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College,University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Wilfrid Arthur Edmund Westall was an English Anglican bishop in the 20th century. He served as Archdeacon of Exeter and as Bishop of Crediton.
Alvin Ackerley was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s,1950s and 1960s. He played at representative level for Great Britain,England and Cumberland,and at club level for Broughton Moor ARLFC,Barrow (trialist),Workington Town,Brookland Rovers ARLFC,Halifax,and Hull Kingston Rovers,as a hooker,i.e. number 9,during the era of contested scrums.
The Archdeacon of Richmond and Craven is an archdiaconal post in the Church of England. It was created in about 1088 within the See of York and was moved in 1541 to the See of Chester,in 1836 to the See of Ripon and after 2014 to the See of Leeds,in which jurisdiction it remains today. It is divided into seven rural deaneries:Ewecross,Harrogate,Richmond,Ripon,Skipton,and Wensley,all in Yorkshire and Bowland in Lancashire.
James William Percy Jones was a priest of the Church of England. He was the Archdeacon of Huntingdon from 1947 to 1954.
The Venerable James Francis Howson (1856–1934) was Archdeacon of Craven from 1928 to 1934.
The Venerable Henry Lucas Cook was Archdeacon of Craven from 1913 to 1928.
Thomas John Williams was Archdeacon of Craven from 1949 to 1956.
The Archdeacon of Craven was a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Bradford. The final archdeacon was Paul Slater.
The Archdeacon of Leeds,previously Archdeacon of Ripon,is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Leeds. As such he or she is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within the four deaneries making up the archdeaconry of Leeds. Until 2014,the post was in the Diocese of Ripon.
The Archdeacon of Bradford is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Leeds. The archdeaconry was originally created within the now-defunct Diocese of Bradford by Order in Council on 25 February 1921.
The Archdeacon of Pontefract is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Leeds.
John Derek Hodgson was an Anglican priest in the last decades of the 20th century and the first of the 21st.
Thomas Maurice Hughes was an eminent Welsh Anglican priest in the second half of the twentieth century:he was Archdeacon of Margam from 1960 to 1964;and Archdeacon of Llandaff 1964 to 1969;and an Assistant Bishop of Llandaff from 1961 until 1970.
Paul John Slater is an Anglican bishop. Since 2018,he has been the Bishop of Kirkstall,a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Leeds. He was Archdeacon of Craven from 2005 to April 2014,Archdeacon of Richmond and Craven from April 2014 to July 2015,and Bishop of Richmond from 2015 until his title changed in 2018.
Robert Meiklejohn was Archdeacon of Norwich from 1954 to 1961.
Peter Robert Nevill Parker is a British biographer,historian,journalist and editor. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997.
Jonathan Robin Blanning Gough is a British Anglican priest and former military chaplain. Since March 2019,he has served as the Archdeacon of Richmond and Craven in the Diocese of Leeds. He had previously served in the Royal Army Chaplains' Department of the British Army.
