john, orpen, john, herbert, orpen, september, 1868, december, 1950, anglican, priest, 20th, century, born, september, 1868, educated, selwyn, college, cambridge, ordained, service, diocese, liverpool, 1894, held, curacies, toxteth, beeston, ross, after, this, . John Herbert Orpen 30 September 1868 3 December 1950 was an Anglican priest in the 20th century 1 He was born on 30 September 1868 educated at Selwyn College Cambridge and ordained for service in the Diocese of Liverpool in 1894 2 He held curacies in Toxteth Beeston and Ross on Wye After this he served incumbencies at Burton Pembrokeshire Thurston and Melton 3 He was commissioned as a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces on 1 October 1918 and was attached to the 1st London Reserve Brigade in Eastern Command 4 A son was killed in July 1916 serving as an officer with the Lancashire Fusiliers 5 In 1929 he became Provost of St Edmundsbury a post he held until 1940 From then until his death on 3 December 1950 he was Rector of Fornham All Saints 6 Notes edit nbsp Christianity portal Deaths The Times London England Tuesday Dec 05 1950 pg 1 Issue 51866 Ordinations The Times London England Wednesday Dec 20 1893 pg 15 Issue 34139 Crockford s Clerical Directory1947 48 p 982 Oxford OUP 1947 Medal Card Museum of Army Chaplaincy Roll of Sons and Daughters of Clergy killed in the Great War by Richard Ussher accessed on Internet National Archives This article about a Church of England dean is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title John Orpen amp oldid 1087391594, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
