Harry Radcliffe

Harry Sydney Radcliffe (7 May 1867 - 6 October 1949) was Archdeacon of Lynn from 1926 to 1946; and as such he played a leading role in the removal of the Rector of Stiffkey in 1932.[1]

The fourth son of Sir David Radcliffe,[2] Lord Mayor of Liverpool from 1884 to 1886, he was born in that city[3] on 7 May 1867 and educated at its college.[4] In 1884 he was commissioned as a volunteer officer into the Liverpool Rifles.[5] He graduated from Exeter College, Oxford in 1893 and was ordained after a period of study at Leeds Clergy School two years later. Radcliffe began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Aspull.[6] After this he was Rector of Gaywood, Norfolk[7] from 1906 to 1946; and Rural Dean of Lynn from 1918 to 1926.

An authority on Norfolk Church plate,[8] he died at Fakenham on 6 October 1949.[9]

Notes

1. The Rector Of Stiffkey The Times (London, England), Monday, Jun 13, 1932; pg. 14; Issue 46158; Stiffkey Parish Church The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Jun 14, 1932; pg. 11; Issue 46159.; The Rector Of Stiffkey Bishop’s sentence of Deprivation The Times (London, England), Saturday, Oct 22, 1932; pg. 7; Issue 46271
2. Art UK
3. thePeerage.com
4. ‘RADCLIFFE, Ven. Harry Sydney’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 29 July 2013
5. London Gazette
6. Crockford's Clerical Directory1929 p1060
7. Bere Regis.org
8. Church Care
9. Obituary The Times (London, England), Saturday, Oct 08, 1949; pg. 7; Issue 51507

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Preceded by John Phillips Allcot Bowers	Archdeacon of Lynn 1926–1946	Succeeded by John Walker Woodhouse