Alan Cornwall (priest)

Alan Whitmore Cornwall[1] (4 October, 1858 9 June, 1932) was Archdeacon of Cheltenham from 1924 until his death.

Born at Uley on 4 October 1858[2] into an ecclesiastical family [3] he was educated at Eton and University College, Oxford and ordained after a period of study at Wells Theological College in 1884.[4] After curacies in Cirencester and Gloucester he was the Vicar of Coleford from 1891 until 1899; and then of Thornbury until his Archdeacon’s appointment.

He died on 9 June 1932.[5] His son, Nigel, was Bishop of Borneo from 1949 until[6] 1962.

References

  1. NPG details
  2. Family Search
  3. He was the son of Rev. Alan Kingscote Cornwall sometime incumbent of Uley > ‘CORNWALL, Ven. Alan Whitmore’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 8 April 2013
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30 Oxford, OUP, 1929 p275
  5. Deaths The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jun 11, 1932; pg. 1; Issue 46157
  6. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1959-60 Oxford, OUP, 1929 p114
Church of England titles
Preceded by
George Lawrence Harter Gardner
Archdeacon of Cheltenham
19241932
Succeeded by
Frederick William Sears


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