Kenneth Child

British Anglican priest

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Kenneth Child (6 March 1916 – 25 October 1983) was Archdeacon of Sudbury from 1970 until his death.

Child was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield and the University of Leeds. After a period of study at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield he was ordained in 1942.[1] His first post was a curacy at Tonge Moor.[2] He was a Chaplain to the Forces from 1944 to 1947 when he returned to Tonge Moor as its Vicar. He was Chaplain of Guy’s Hospital from 1955 to 1959 when he became Rector of Newmarket, a post he held for ten years; also serving as its Rural Dean from 1963. He was then appointed Rector of The Thurlows with Little Bradley;[3] and an Archdeacon the following year.

References

  1. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
  2. ^ ‘CHILD, Ven. Kenneth’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 5 March 2013
  3. ^ Geograph
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