Geoffrey Gower-Jones

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Geoffrey Gower-Jones(born 30 April 1910– died 5 November 1982) was Archdeacon of Lancaster from 1966 to 1980.

He was born into an ecclesiastical family^[1] educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and ordained in 1934. ^[2] After curacies in Royton and Prestwich he became Vicar of Belfield in 1943; and then of St Stephen-on-the-Cliffs, Blackpool ^[3] before his Archdeacon’s appointment.

References

↑ His father was theRev William Gower-Jones, sometime Vicar of Wingates > ‘GOWER-JONES, Ven. Geoffrey’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U164676, accessed 12 June 2013]
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
↑ Church web site

Church of England titles
Preceded by Charles Henry Lambert	Archdeacon of Lancaster 1966–1980	Succeeded by Kenneth Harry Gibbons

v t e Archdeacons of Lancaster

William Hornby Arthur Clarke William Bonsey Phipps Hornby Henry Fosbrooke Benjamin Pollard Gordon Fallows Charles Lambert Geoffrey Gower-Jones Ken Gibbons Robert Ladds Colin Williams Peter Ballard Michael Everitt

v t e Diocese of Blackburn

Blackburn Cathedral Bishop's House, Blackburn Church House, Blackburn Whalley Abbey

Office holders	The Bishop of Blackburn, Julian Henderson The Bishop suffragan of Burnley, John Goddard The Bishop suffragan of Lancaster, Geoff Pearson AEO: the Bishop suffragan of Burnley The Dean of Blackburn, Christopher Armstrong The Archdeacon of Blackburn, John Hawley The Archdeacon of Lancaster, Michael Everitt

Historic offices	Provost of Blackburn (1931–2000; see Dean of Blackburn)

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