Edward Seagar

Edward Leslie Seager was Archdeacon of Dorset from 1955 to 1974.[1]

Born on 5 October 1904, he was educated at Bromsgrove School and Durham University ordained in 1929. He was Chaplain at Wellington School from 1931 until 1939; and a Chaplain to the Forces from then[2] until 1946. He was Vicar of Gillingham, Dorset from 1946 to 1979, Rural Dean of Shaftesbury from 1951 to 1956; and a Canon of Salisbury Cathedral from 1954 to 1968.

He died on 2 November 1983.[3]

Notes

  1. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  2. London Gazette 8 August 1939
  3. ‘SEAGER, Ven Edward Leslie’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 22 Nov 2012