John Stocks (priest)

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The Venerable John Edward Stocks, MA[1] (28 August 1843-29 August 1926[2]) was Archdeacon of Leicester[3] from 1899[4] to 1920.[5]

Stocks was born in Leeds,[6] educated at Christ Church, Oxford.[7] and ordained in 1867.[8] He was Chaplain at his old college from 1867 to 1871. He was Vicar of Market Harborough[9] from 1871 to 1884[10] and of St Saviour’s Leicester from 1884 to 1902; Rural Dean of Gartree from 1884 to 1891 and of Leicester from 1891 to 1899. He was an Honorary Canon of Peterborough Cathedral from 1893[11] to 1899; Rector of Misterton with Walcote from 1903 to 1914; and Prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation, Canterbury from 1913 to 1918.

Notes

  1. ”Multiple News Items” The Standard (London, England), Friday, May 06, 1870; pg. 3; Issue 14277
  2. Deaths The Times(London, England), Saturday, Aug 31, 1929; pg. 13; Issue 45296
  3. University of Leicester
  4. Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Thursday, Mar 02, 1899; pg. 10; Issue 35766
  5. Ecclesiastical News The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Oct 27, 1920; pg. 14; Issue 42552
  6. ‘STOCKS, Rev. John Edward’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U203404, accessed 28 Sept 2013]
  7. ”UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE” The Leeds Mercury (Leeds, England), Tuesday, December 17, 1867; Issue 9260
  8. ”GENERAL ORDINATIONS” The Morning Post (London, England), Monday, December 23, 1867; pg. 3; Issue 29339
  9. ”Market Harborough Parish Records” Stocks, J.E: London, Elliot Stock, 1882
  10. ”Church News” The Newcastle Weekly Courant (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England), Friday, November 14, 1884; Issue 10948
  11. ”ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENTS” The Standard (London, England), Thursday, February 09, 1893; pg. 8; Issue 21404
Church of England titles
Preceded by
John Mitchinson
Archdeacon of Leicester
1899–1920
Succeeded by
Frederick Brodie MacNutt


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