Foster Blackburne

Foster Grey Blackburne, MA (Prestwich, 3 December 1838 – 1 February 1909[1]) was Archdeacon of Manchester[2] from 1905 until his death.[3]

He was educated at Marlborough and Brasenose College, Oxford[4] and ordained in 1863.[5] He began his ecclesiastical career with curacies in Bebbington and Chester. After this he was Rector of Nantwich[6] from 1872[7] to 1894; and then of Bury[8] from 1894[9] until his death.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Cricket Archive
  2. ↑ London Gazette
  3. ↑ ‘The Archdeacon Of Manchester’ The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Feb 02, 1909; pg. 11; Issue 38872
  4. ↑ ‘UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE’ Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, December 7, 1861; Issue 5667
  5. ↑ ’ORDINATION AT CHESTER CATHEDRAL’ Cheshire Observer and General Advertiser: for Cheshire and North Wales (Chester, England), Saturday, June 06, 1863; pg. 2; Issue 479
  6. ↑ “A history of the town and parish of Nantwich in the county palatine of Chester” Hall,J: Nantwich, T. Johnson, 1883
  7. ↑ ‘Ecclesiastical and Religious’ The Derby Mercury (Derby, England), Wednesday, March 20, 1872; Issue 8226
  8. ↑ British History On-line
  9. ↑ ‘Ecclesiastical Intelligence’ The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Jan 17, 1894; pg. 6; Issue 34163
  10. ↑ ‘BLACKBURNE, Rev. Foster Grey’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 23 June 2013
Church of England titles
Preceded by
James Maurice Wilson		 Archdeacon of Manchester
1905–1909 		Succeeded by
John Charles Wright


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