David Cranage

The Very Rev David Herbert Somerset Cranage (10 October 1866 – 22 October 1957) was an Anglican Dean[1] in the second quarter of the 20th century.[2]

Born on 10 October 1866[3] he was educated at King's College, Cambridge.[4] Ordained in 1897,[5] he held curacies at Little Wenlock and Much Wenlock[6] and was Secretary of the Cambridge University Local Lectures until his appointment as Dean of Norwich,[7] a post he held for 19 years.[8][9] He died on 22 October 1957.

Notes

  1. ↑ London Gazette
  2. ↑ National Archives
  3. ↑ Who was Who 1987-1990: London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  4. ↑ "Cranage, David Herbert Somerset (CRNG885DH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ↑ Ordinations. Canterbury. The Times Wednesday, Dec 22, 1897; pg. 3; Issue 35393; col C
  6. ↑ ”The Clergy List” London, Kelly’s, 1913
  7. ↑ New Dean Of Norwich. Dr. D. H. S. Cranage. The Times Thursday, Dec 01, 1927; pg. 16; Issue 44753; col C
  8. ↑ ”Norwich Cathedral : church, city and diocese, 1096-1996” Atherton, I: London Hambledon Press, 1996 ISBN 1-85285-134-1
  9. ↑ Norfolk Record Office online catalogue

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Preceded by
John Wakefield Willink		 Dean of Norwich
1927–1946 		Succeeded by
Herbert St Barbe Holland