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Deaths

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01 April 2016

BOFFEY. — On 11 February, the Revd Ian Boffey: Priest-in-Charge of Dalry (1978-97); Assistant Priest in the North Ayrshire Team Ministry (1997-2012); aged 75.

BOULCOTT. — On 12 January, the Revd Thomas William Boulcott: Chaplain of Bedford Hospital (1952-54); Vicar of St Augustine’s, Leicester (1954-61); Chaplain of Leicester Isolation Hospital (1958-61); Vicar of St Stephen’s, North Evington (1961-73); Chaplain of Leicester General Hospital (1962-73); Vicar of Loppington with Newtown (1973-85); Rural Dean of Wem and Whitchurch (1983-85); aged 99.

JOHNSON. — On 16 March, the Revd John Anthony Johnson: Vicar of Balderton (1956-60); Mansfield Woodhouse (1960-70); Beeston (1970-85); Rural Dean of Beeston (1981-85); Hon. Canon of Southwell Minster (1982-85); aged 97.

MARTIN. — On 24 March, Fr Ralph (Donald Philip) Martin SSM: Tutor at Kelham Theological College (1957-73); Member of the Society of the Sacred Mission since 1960; Province of SSM in England (1972-81); Priest-in-Charge of Willen (1974-81); in Japan (1981-82); in Ghana (1983-89); Director of the Cleveland Lay Training Course (1989-91); Assistant Curate of All Saints, Middlesbrough (1989-91); in Kuwait (1992-93); in Italy (1993-94); in Canada (1994-95); Tutor at St Albans and Oxford Ministry Course (1995-96); Chaplain to the Order of the Holy Paraclete (1996); in Lesotho (1997-2000); aged 85.

PALMER. — On 24 March, the Revd Terence Henry James Palmer: Minor Canon and Curate of St Davids Cathedral (1960-63); Assistant Curate of Monmouth (1965-69); Curate-in-Charge of St Hilary’s Conventional District, Greenway (1969-72); Rector of Roggiett with Llanvihangel Roggiett (1972-80); Roggiett with Llanvihangel Roggiett and Portskewett (1980-2000); Rural Dean of Netherwent (1989-2000); Director of Non Stipendiary Ministry Studies (1991-99); Canon of St Woolos’s Cathedral, Newport (1996-2000); Priest-in-Charge of St Teilo’s, Newport, since 2003; aged 81.

SANDERS. — On 22 March, the Revd Nigel Wilding Sanders: NSM of St Andrew’s and St Mary Magdalene’s, Maidenhead (1992-97); Furze Platt (1997-2004); aged 86.

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