Bertram Kite

The Very Rev Joseph Bertram Kite,[1] (21 January 1857 – 15 September 1939) was the fourth Dean of Hobart, serving from 1897[2] to 1916.[3]

Born into an ecclesiastical family,[4] he was educated at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School,[5]Marlborough[6] and Keble College, Oxford.[7]

He was ordained in 1882;[8] and began his ecclesiastical career as Curate of St Michael and All Angels, Bromley-by-Bow. He was Curate in charge of Christ Church, Isle of Dogs from 1887 to[9] 1894;[10] and Rector of Billingford from 1894[11] to 1897 before his time as Dean; and Vicar of St Peter’s Church, Ealing after.[12]

References

  1. ↑ Daily News (London, England), Tuesday, October 12, 1897; Issue 16082
  2. ↑ Tasmanian Anglican
  3. ↑ Trove
  4. ↑ His father was The Rev. F. R. Kite ‘KITE, Rev. Joseph Bertram’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 5 Nov 2013
  5. ↑ The Bury and Norwich Post, and Suffolk Herald (Bury Saint Edmunds, England), Tuesday, December 13, 1870; pg. 5; Issue 4616
  6. ↑ University Intelligence The Times (London, England), Thursday, Mar 30, 1876; pg. 8; Issue 28590
  7. ↑ University Intelligence The Times (London, England), Monday, May 23, 1881; pg. 13; Issue 30201
  8. ↑ Ordinations, London The Times (London, England), Tuesday, May 22, 1883; pg. 4; Issue 30826
  9. ↑ During this time he married Edith née Corrie in 1892 > “Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries” The Standard (London, England), Thursday, June 16, 1892; pg. [1]; Issue 21200
  10. ↑ Police The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Feb 16, 1892; pg. 3; Issue 33562
  11. ↑ ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENTS The Standard (London, England), Thursday, October 11, 1894; pg. 8; Issue 21926
  12. ↑ Legal notices The Times (London, England), Friday, Oct 27, 1939; pg. 1; Issue 48447
Religious titles
Preceded by
Charles Leslie Dundas		 Dean of Hobart
1897 – 1916 		Succeeded by
Robert Snowdon Hay