Alfred Swann (priest)
Rev. Canon Alfred Swann, MA, DSC (12 July 1893[1] – 7 October 1961) was Dean and Archdeacon of Hong Kong from 1927 to 1935.[2]
Biography
[edit]He was born in Japan to British parents.[3] He was educated at Rugby and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. After wartime service in the RNVR[4] he was ordained in 1922. Following a curacy in Kirkburton[5] he was Vicar of Liversedge before his time in Hong Kong; and held incumbencies in Wiltshire[6] and Somerset afterwards.
References
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- ^ 1939 England and Wales Register
- ^ "SWANN, Rev. Canon Alfred", Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 26 Aug 2014
- ^ 1901 England Census
- ^ London Gazette
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1959/60 p 1129:Oxford, OUP, 1959
- ^ "Ecclesiastical News." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jan 11, 1936; pg. 15; Issue 47269
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