William Purcell (priest)

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William Henry Samuel Purcell (1912-1994) was Archdeacon of Dorking from 1968 until 1982.

Biography

Purcell was born in or near to Norwich on 22 January 1912. [1] Purcell was educated at Norwich School and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and ordained in 1938. [2] After a curacy in Headingley, Yorkshire he was raised to the position of a Minor Canon of Ripon Cathedral in that county. He held incumbencies (as priest leading a church) in Leeds, Yorkshire and Epsom, Surrey before his appointment as Archdeacon which he retired at the age of 70. [3] He lived a further 12 years until 4 June 1994.

Notes

  1. ↑ Personal Column The Times (London, England), Tuesday, June 7, 1994; pg. 20; Issue 64974.
  2. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76 p 806 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN   0-19-200008-X
  3. ↑ ‘PURCELL, Ven. William Henry Samuel’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 1 Feb 2014
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Kenneth Dawson Evans 		Archdeacon of Dorking
1968–1982		Succeeded by
Peter Graham Hogben

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