Samuel Crooks
| The Very Reverend Samuel Crooks MA | |
|---|---|
| Dean of Belfast | |
| In office 1970–1985 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 January 1920 |
| Died | 21 August 1986 (aged 66) |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Spouse(s) | Isabel née Kennedy |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
| Religion | Church of Ireland |
The Very Reverend Samuel Bennett Crooks, OBE,[1] TD[2] was Dean of Belfast[3] in the last third of the 20th century.[4]
He was born on 20 January 1920 into an ecclesiastical family (his father was the Rev. S. B. Crooks, Rector of St Stephen’s, Belfast)[5] and educated at Down High School and Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained in 1944[6] and became Dean's Vicar at St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, until 1949, when he was appointed Rector of St John’s, Orangefield.[7] Later he was Rural Dean of Hillsborough and Archdeacon of Dromore. In 1970 he became Dean of Belfast, a post he held for 15 years. He was made a Chaplain of the Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem in the Queen's Birthday Honours in February 1976.[8] He died in 1986 aged 66 in a car crash on the Saintfield Road near Carryduff on his way to a meeting at Belfast cathedral.
Notes
- ↑ Belfast Gazette
- ↑ IP board
- ↑ Cathedral web-site
- ↑ “A New History of Ireland ”Moody, T.M; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J; Cosgrove, F: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
- ↑ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
- ↑ Photo of Church
- ↑ London Gazette
| Church of Ireland titles | ||
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| Preceded by Cuthbert Irvine Peacocke |
Dean of Belfast 1970 – 1985 |
Succeeded by Jack Shearer |
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