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Harry Barton (priest)

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Harry Douglas Barton, MA (1 December 1898 – 16 March 1968) was Archdeacon of Sudbury from 1962 until his death.

Barton was educated at King's Ely and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1924 and served curacies in Swansea and Bradford.

He was Vicar of Coleshill, Warwickshire from 1938; an Army Chaplain during World War II; Rural Dean of Sutton Coldfield, then Sudbury before he took up his Archdeacon’s appointment.

References

  1. Ecclesiastical News The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Jun 27, 1962; pg. 14; Issue 55428
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
  3. ‘BARTON, Ven. Harry Douglas’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 4 March 2013
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Preceded byHugh Ross Norton Archdeacon of Sudbury
1962–1968
Succeeded byDavid Rokeby Maddock
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