Frederick Sears (priest)

Frederick Williams Sears (1871 – 9 November 1955) was Archdeacon of Cheltenham from 1932^[1] until 1943.

Sears was born in Taunton in 1871 and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained after a period of study at Wells Theological College in 1899^[2] and began his ecclesiastical career with curacies in Ryhope and Gloucester. He was the Vicar of Nailsworth from 1908 until 1915; Rector of Minchinhampton from 1915 to 1918, and then Leckhampton from 1928 to 1938.

A Canon Residentiary of Gloucester Cathedral from 1938 to 1943, he died at Milford on Sea on 9 November 1955.^[3]

References

^ National Archives
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30 Oxford, OUP, 1929 p1151
^ Obituary The Times (London, England), Thursday, Nov 10, 1955; pg. 15; Issue 53374

Church of England titles
Preceded by Alan Whitmore Cornwall	Archdeacon of Cheltenham 1932–1943	Succeeded by Edmund Theodore Murray

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v t e Archdeacons of Cirencester and of Cheltenham
Cirencester	Henry Rudge Hayward John Sinclair Reginald Waterfield (became Archdeacon of Cheltenham)
Cheltenham	Reginald Waterfield (previously Archdeacon of Cirencester) George Gardner Alan Cornwall Frederick Sears Edmund Murray Ronald Sutch George Hutchins Eric Evans John Lewis Hedley Ringrose Robert Springett Phil Andrew

v t e Diocese of Gloucester
Gloucester Cathedral Bishopscourt, Gloucester Church House, Gloucester
Office holders	Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester Robert Springett, Bishop suffragan of Tewkesbury AEO: Paul Thomas, Bishop suffragan of Oswestry & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Andrew Zihni, Dean of Gloucester Phil Andrew, Archdeacon of Cheltenham Hilary Dawson, Archdeacon of Gloucester
Historic offices	Archdeacon of Cirencester (1882–1919; renamed to Archdeacon of Cheltenham)