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Deaths

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30 November 2018

BECKWITH. — On 19 November, the Revd John Douglas Beckwith: Senior Tutor of Ijebu-Igbo Great School and Molusi College, Nigeria (1960-62); Assistant Curate of Bedale (1962-63); Mottingham (1965-69); House Tutor of Eltham College (1964-69); Chaplain of St Andrew’s. Gothenburg, with Halmstad and Jönköping, Sweden (1969-70); Chaplain to the Bishop of Edmonton (1970-77); London Diocesan Director of Ordinands (1970-77); Vicar of St Anne’s, Brookfield, Highgate Rise (1977-88); Canon of Gibraltar Cathedral (1984-88); Hon. Canon (1988-2005); Priest-in-Charge of Wootton (1988); Kiddington with Asterleigh (1988); Bladon with Woodstock (1988-93); Assistant Curate of Kidlington with Hampton Poyle (1993-94); aged 85.

DAVIES. — On 18 November, the Revd Bernard Davies: Travelling Secretary of the Ruanda Mission (1969-71); Rector of Widford (1971-78); Vicar of Braintree (1978-2000); Rural Dean of Braintree (1987-95); Hon. Canon of Chelmsford Cathedral (1992-2000); aged 84.

JONES. — On 9 November, the Revd William Douglas Jones: Assistant Curate of Warwick, Australia (1957-58); in Papua New Guinea (1958-72); Assistant Curate of Manston (1972-75); Vicar of Middleton (1975-87); Ireland Wood (1987-94); aged 90.

MOORE. — On 12 November, the Revd John Moore: Assistant Curate of Abingdon (1958-67); Vicar of St Saviour’s, Retford (1967-73); Rector of Aspenden and Layston with Buntingford (1973-86); Vicar of Stanstead Abbots (1986-91); aged 92.

PERCIVAL. — On 19 November, the Revd Richard Thomas Percival: deacon in the diocese of Umzimvubu, South Africa (1991-94); Rural Dean in the Archdeaconry of Kokstad (1993-94); NSM of St Ninian’s, Edinburgh (1994-98); aged 85.

THOMAS. — On 16 November, the Revd Richard Frederick Thomas: Chaplain of Haileybury College (1951-67); House master (1957-67); Head Master of the Anglican Church School, Jerusalem (1967-73); House Master of Bishop Luffa School, Chichester (1974-81); Hon. Assistant Curate of St Pancras and St John, Chichester (1978-81); Vicar of North Mundham with Hunstanton and Merston (1981-89); Assistant Curate of Compton, the Mardens, Stoughton and Racton (1996-2000); Stansted (1996-2000); aged 94.

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