Richard Sharp (priest)

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Richard Lloyd Sharp was Archdeacon of Dorset from 1975 [1] to 1982. [2]

Born on 30 November 1916, he was educated at Brighton Hove & Sussex Grammar School, [3] and ordained in 1941. After a curacy at Holy Trinity, Weymouth [4] he held incumbencies in Portland, Wootton Bassett and Salisbury before returning to his first post as Vicar.

He died on 4 July 1982.

Notes

  1. Church news The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Oct 16, 1974; pg. 16; Issue 59219
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN   0-19-200008-X
  3. ‘SHARP, Ven. Richard Lloyd’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 19 Nov 2012
  4. Church website


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