Edmund Murray (priest)

Edmund Theodore Murray (16 August 1877 – 16 February 1969[1]) was Archdeacon of Cheltenham[2] from 1943 to 1951.

Murray was educated at Uppingham School and Christ's College, Cambridge, and ordained[3] after a period of study at Leeds Clergy School in 1900.[4] He served curacies at Bedale, Wymondham[5] and Wem.[6] He was Rector of Bourton-on-the-Hill from 1906 to[7] 1946; during which time he was a Chaplain to the Forces from 1917[8] to 1919. He was appointed an Honorary Canon of Gloucester Cathedral in 1938.[9]

References

  1. ^ Obituary. Canon Edmund Theodore Murray The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Feb 19, 1969; pg. 10; Issue 57489
  2. ^ National Archives
  3. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30 p926 Oxford, OUP, 1929
  4. ^ Ordinations. Ripon. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Sep 25, 1900; pg. 2; Issue 36256
  5. ^ ‘MURRAY, Reverend Canon Edmund Theodore’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 11 April 2013
  6. ^ “Shropshire Parish Register Society” Phillimore, W. P. W. Lichfield, Diocese of Lichfield, 1908
  7. ^ Caern Research
  8. ^ SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 12 APRIL, 1917
  9. ^ Ecclesiastical News The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Dec 27, 1938; pg. 11; Issue 48187
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