Robert Jeffery (priest)

The Very Rev Robert Martin Colquhoun Jeffery (born 30 April 1935) was an Anglican clergyman in the second half of the 20th century.[1]

Robert Jeffery was educated at St Paul's School, London and King's College London and ordained in 1960.[2] His first posts were curacies at St Aidan's, Grangetown[3] and St Mary, Barnes.[4] After this he was the Assistant Secretary of the Missionary and Ecumenical Council of the Church Assembly then Secretary of the Department of Mission and Unity for the British Council of Churches .[3] From 1971 to 1978 he was Vicar of St Andrew, Headington[5] then Lichfield Diocesan Missioner. He was promoted to be Archdeacon of Salop,[6] in 1980 and seven years later became Dean of Worcester. In 1996 he became Sub Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, a post he held until his retirement in 2002.

References

  1. ^ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  2. ^ “Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007. ISBN 9780199540877.
  3. ^ a b Crockford's Clerical Directory Lambeth, Church House, 1976 ISBN 0108153674
  4. ^ St Mary Church, Barnes.
  5. ^ History of Headington.
  6. ^ Manuscripts (MSS 3121–3385), Lambeth Palace Library, The National Archives, UK.
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Thomas George Adames Baker		 Dean of Worcester
1987–1996		 Succeeded by
Peter Jerome Marshall
16th Century

Henry Holbeach • John Barlow • Philip Hawford • Seth Holland • John Pedder • Thomas Wilson • Francis Willis • Richard Edes
17th Century
18th Century

Francis Hare • James Stillingfleet • Edmund Marten • John Waugh • Richard Wrottesley • William Digby • Robert Foley • St Andrew St John • Arthur Onslow
19th Century

John Jenkinson • James Hook • George Murray • John Peel • The Hon Grantham Yorke • Lord Alwyne Compton • John Gott • Robert Forrest
1908 onwards
Office holders in the Diocese of Worcester