Tom Baker (priest)

The Very Rev Thomas George Adames (Tom) Baker (22 December 1920 – 25 September 2000) was an eminent Anglican clergyman[1] in the second half of the 20th century [2]. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton and Exeter College, Oxford[3] and ordained in 1945. His first post was as a curate at All Saints, King's Heath[4] after which he was Vicar of St James, Edgbaston[5]. He was then Sub-Warden of Lincoln Theological College[6] then Principal of Wells Theological College[7]. In 1971 he became Archdeacon of Bath and four years later was appointed to the Deanery of Worcester Cathedral where he served until 1986.

References

  1. ^ Genealogical web-site
  2. ^ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  3. ^ Telegraph Obituary
  4. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory Lambeth, Church House, 1976 ISBN 0108153674
  5. ^ Photo of now redundant church
  6. ^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877
  7. ^ Guardian web-site
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Eric Waldram Kemp		 Dean of Worcester
1975 – 1986		 Succeeded by
Robert Martin Colquhoun Jeffery
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