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Deaths

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27 March 2026

BELL. — On 2 March, the Revd Robert Mason Bell: Assistant Curate of St Andrew’s, Burgess Hill (1968-78); Rector of St John’s, Lewes (1978-2000); aged 90.

CLARIDGE. — On 14 March, the Revd Antony Arthur John Claridge: NS Assistant Curate of Keynsham (1984-97); Bishop of Bath & Wells’s Officer for NSMs (1990-2010); Minister of Christ Church Proprietary Chapel, Bath (1997-2010); aged 89.

DODD. — On 17 March, the Revd Michael Christopher Dodd: Assistant Curate of Stechford (1959-62); Vicar of St Boniface’s, Quinton Road West, Birmingham (1962-72); Team Vicar of Paston (1972-77); Team Rector of Hodge Hill (1977-89); aged 92.

DRUCE. — On 10 March, the Revd John Perry Druce: Vicar of Walsall Wood (1964-74); Rector of Farnborough (1974-87); East Bergholt (1987-99); Priest-in-Charge of Bentley with Tattingstone (1995-99); aged 92 (correction).

LONG. — On 13 February, the Revd Simon Richard Long: Assistant Curate of St Francis’s, Bournemouth (1965-68); Assistant Curate in Brussels (1968); in the US (1969-88); Vicar of Portales and Port Sumner (1969-79); St Mark’s, Lincoln (1979-81); St Katharine’s, Martin (1981-83); Rector of Emmanuel Church, Louisville (1983-86); Christ Church, Elizabethtown (1986-88); Priest-in-Charge of Medbourne cum Holt with Stockerston and Blaston (1988-89); Bringhurst with Great Easton (1988-89); Rector of Six Saints circa Holt (1990-99); Rural Dean of Gartree I (1993-97); aged 85.

McKELVEY. — On 19 March, the Very Revd Robert Samuel James Houston McKelvey: Chaplain to the Forces (Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve) (1970-99); Priest-in-Charge of Kilmakee (1970-77); Rector (1977-81); Secretary of the Church of Ireland’s General Synod Board of Education (Northern Ireland) (1981-2001); Prebendary of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin (1989-2001); Dean of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast (2001-11); aged 83.

RINGER. — On March 22, the Revd Philip James Ringer: NS Assistant Curate of St Peter’s, Chalfont (1991-95); Priest-in-Charge of Lynton, Brendon, Countisbury, Lynmouth, Barbrook, Parracombe and Martinhoe (1995-96); Team Vicar in the North Devon Coast Team Ministry (1996-2003); Chaplain to the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary (2000-03); Rector of the Wriggle Valley (2003-08); Chaplain to South West Dorset Primary Care Trust (2008-26); Chaplain to the Dorset Police and Hospital (2010-26); aged 78.

SLYFIELD. — On 9 March, the Revd Margaret Medi Slyfield: NS Assistant Curate of Buxton with Burbage and King Sterndale (2014-16); Associate Priest (2019-24); Associate Priest of Chelmorton, Earl Sterndale and Taddington in the White Peak Group (2024-26); aged 64.

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