Percy Bayne

Percy Matheson Bayne, (11 June 1865 – 11 October 1942)[1] was the first Archdeacon of Southend, serving from 1922 until[2] 1938.

Bayne was born into an ecclesiastical family[3] in South Weald, educated at Highgate School and Hertford College, Oxford and ordained in 1889.[4] He began his career with curacies at St Michael and All Angels, Walthamstow and Holy Trinity, Canning Town before being in charge of the St Augustine's Mission, Leytonstone. He was Rector of Little Ilford from 1894 to 1913; Rural Dean of Barking from 1912 to 1914; Clerical Secretary of the London-over-the-Border Church Fund from 1914 to 1922;[5] an Honorary Canon of Chelmsford Cathedral from 1914 to his appointment as Archdeacon; Honorary Chaplain to the Bishop of Chelmsford from 1917 to 1922; and Clerical Secretary of the Diocesan Funds from 1922 to 1928.[6]

References

1. Obituary. The Times (London, England), Monday, Oct 12, 1942; pg. 4; Issue 49364
2. London Gazette
3. His father was the Rev. George Smith Bayne, MA, sometime Vicar of Bishop's Stortford > ‘BAYNE, Ven. Percy Matheson’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 16 May 2015
4. Ordinations. The Times (London, England), Monday, Dec 23, 1889; pg. 10; Issue 32889
5. Diocesan Web-site
6. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30: Oxford, OUP, 1929 p 80

Church of England titles
Preceded by Inaugural appointment	Archdeacon of Southend 1922–1938	Succeeded by Ellis Gowing