Christopher Spafford

Christopher Garnett Howsin Spafford was Provost of Newcastle from 1976[1] to 1989.

Spafford was born into an ecclesiastical family[2] on 10 September 1924, educated at Marlborough College and St John's College, Cambridge and ordained in 1950.[3] After curacies at Brighouse and Huddersfield he held incumbencies at Hebden Bridge, Thornhill and Shrewsbury.[4] He was Provost of Newcastle Cathedral from 1976 to 1989.[5]

Reverend Christopher Spafford died in September 2011.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Newcastle Libraries
  2. ↑ His father was the Rev. Canon Douglas Norman Spafford, sometime Vicar of Walton-on-the-Hill > Crockford's Clerical Directory 1948 Oxford, OUP, 1947
  3. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  4. ↑ Who’s Who 1996 London A & C Black, 1995 ISBN 0-7136-4255-6]
  5. ↑ ancestral-indexes
  6. ↑ "St Chad' s, Shrewsbury". http://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/. ukpressonline. Retrieved 20 January 2015. External link in |website= (help)
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Conrad Clifton Wolters		 Provost of Newcastle
1976 – 1989 		Succeeded by
Nicholas Guy Coulton



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