Raymond Ravenscroft

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The Venerable Raymond Lockwood Ravenscroft (15 September 1931 - 18 May 2020) was an Anglican priest who was Archdeacon of Cornwall from 1988 to 1996. [1]

Ravenscroft was educated at Sea Point Boys' High School, the University of Leeds and the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield. [2] He was ordained deacon in 1955 and priest in 1956. [3] After curacies at St Alban, Goodwood, Cape Town in South Africa (1955–57) and St John's Cathedral, Bulawayo in what was then Southern Rhodesia (1957–59) he was Rector of Francistown in what was then Bechuanaland (1959–62). [4] He then returned to England and served at St Ives, Cornwall (1962–64); All Saints' Church, Falmouth, Cornwall (1964–68), Launceston, Cornwall (1968-74) and Grampound (1974–88). [5]

He married Ann Stockwell; she predeceased him, in 2008. [6] He died in 2020, aged 88. [7]

Notes

  1. ↑ Church news. The Times (London, England), Thursday, February 08, 1996; pg. 20; Issue 65497
  2. ↑ "Gavin Kirk" . Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing . Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  3. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th Edition, p 793.
  4. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th Edition, p 793.
  5. ↑ ‘RAVENSCROFT, Ven. Raymond Lockwood’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 9 July 2017
  6. ↑ "Church Times: Obituary, The Ven Raymond Ravenscroft, 12 June 2020" . Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  7. ↑ "Church Times: Obituary, The Ven Raymond Ravenscroft, 12 June 2020" . Retrieved 18 February 2021.
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Preceded by Archdeacon of Cornwall
1988-1996		Succeeded by


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