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Deaths

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04 October 2024

BROWNSELL. — On 26 September, the Revd John Kenneth Brownsell: Team Vicar in the Notting Hill Team Ministry (1976-82); Vicar of All Saints with St Columb, Notting Hill (1982-2018); Area Dean of Kensington (1984-92); Prebendary of St Paul’s Cathedral (1992-2018); Diocesan Director of Ordinands (1995-2012); aged 76.

COKE. — On 20 August, the Revd Paul Tyler Coke: formerly in ECUSA; mission worker in Liberia; Professor of New Testament at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Caribbean, Puerto Rico; Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas; Hon. Assistant Curate of St Peter’s, Mansfield; aged 91.

HOBSON. — On 29 September, the Revd Patrick John Bogan Hobson: Rector of Clifton-on-Teme, Lower Sapey and the Shelsleys (1981-88); Team Rector in the Holy Cross Team Ministry, Waltham (1988-98); Hon. Canon of Chelmsford Cathedral (1995-98); aged 91.

MORGAN. — On 26 September, the Revd Graham Morgan: NS Assistant Curate of St Stephen’s, South Kensington (1983-90); Holy Innocents’, Hammersmith (1990-02); St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park, since 2002; aged 77.

WAGSTAFF. — On 26 September, the Revd Andrew Robert Wagstaff: Assistant Curate of St Bartholomew’s, Dublin, with Leeson Park (1986-89); Vicar of St George with St John the Baptist, Nottingham (1989-95); Worksop Priory (1995-2006); Chaplain of St Boniface’s, Antwerp (2006-23); Canon of the Europe Cathedral Chapter (2012-23); aged 69.

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