Ken Unwin

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The Ven. Kenneth Unwin [1] (16 September 1926 - 27 December 2020) was Archdeacon of Pontefract from 1981 until 1992. [2]

Unwin was born in Chesterfield and educated at Chesterfield Grammar School; St Edmund Hall, Oxford; and Ely Theological College. He was ordained deacon in 1951 and priest in 1952. [3] After a curacy at All Saints, Leeds (1951–55), he was Priest in charge of St John's, Neville's Cross (1955–59). He was Vicar of St John the Baptist, Dodworth from 1959 to 1969; St John the Baptist, Royston from 1969 to 1973; and of St John, Wakefield from 1973 to 1982. [4]

He was married to Beryl, and had four daughters and a son. [5] He died in 2020, aged 94. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Bizstatz
  2. ↑ "Kenneth Unwin" . Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing . Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  3. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th Edition, p 979.
  4. ↑ ‘UNWIN, Ven. Kenneth’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, November 2016 accessed 28 July 2017
  5. ↑ "Church Times: "Obituary: The Ven Kenneth Unwin", 29 January 2021" . Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  6. ↑ "Church Times: Deaths, 8 January 2021" . Retrieved 10 January 2021.
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