Alan Clarkson (priest)

For the English swimmer, see Alan Clarkson (swimmer).

Alan Geoffrey Clarkson (14 February 1934 – 8 November 2022) was Archdeacon of Winchester from 1984[1] to 1999.[2]

Early life and education

The second son of Geoffrey Archibald Clarkson, OBE, deputy superintendent of navy examinations for the Admiralty and dean of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and Royal Naval Engineering College, Keyham, and his wife Essie Isabel Bruce, daughter of the physician and writer H. E. B. Bruce-Porter,[3][4] Clarkson was educated at Sherborne School; Christ's College, Cambridge (B.A. 1957, M.A. 1961);[5] and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.

Career

After National Service in the Royal Artillery he was ordained in 1960. After curacies in Penn, Wolverhampton, Oswestry and Wrington he held incumbencies at Chewton Mendip, Glastonbury and Burley, Ringwood. He was an Honorary Canon at Winchester Cathedral from 1984 to 1999.[6]

He died in 2022, aged 88.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ Church news. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 31 July 1984; pg. 14; Issue 61897
  2. ^ "Alan Geoffrey Clarkson". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  3. ^ Armorial Families, seventh edition, A. C. Fox-Davies, Hurst & Blackett Ltd, 1929, p. 245
  4. ^ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes, Charles Roger Dod, Robert Phipps Dod, 1921, p. 697
  5. ^ The Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 July 1998, University of Cambridge, 1998, p. 150
  6. ^ 'CLARKSON, Ven. Alan Geoffrey', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 1 Aug 2017
  7. ^ "Church Times: "Deaths", 9 December 2022". Retrieved 27 January 2023.


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