Frank Crosse

Frank Parker Crosse MC[1] (24 October 1897 - 15 March 1979) was a British soldier and Church of England clergyman who became Dean of Grahamstown Cathedral in South Africa.

Life

Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,[2] early in the First World War Crosse was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the South Staffordshire Regiment and in 1916 was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry.[3]

After the War he trained for the priesthood at Lincoln Theological College, was ordained deacon in 1923[4] and after a curacy in Bolsover he was Vicar at Derry Hill, then at Branksome; and was later Rector of Barlborough[5] and Morton.[6] In 1934 he was appointed as Dean of Grahamstown Cathedral,[2][7][8] also becoming its Archdeacon and Rural Dean.

References

  1. ↑ "Military Cross". Evening Despatch (Birmingham). 27 November 1916. p. 3 col B. Retrieved 2014-09-03 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1947-48 (Oxford, OUP, 1947), p. 299
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 29837. p. 11534. 24 November 1916. Retrieved 24 Sep 2013.
  4. ↑ "Diocese Of Southwell.". Derby Daily Telegraph. 22 December 1923. Retrieved 2014-09-03 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "New Rector Of Barlboro’". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald (7850). 10 November 1944. p. 1 col C. Retrieved 2014-09-03 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ Newsletter June 2011 (pdf), Morton Parish Council, 2011, p. 8, retrieved 2014-09-03
  7. ↑ Charles Gould; Jeanette Eve (2011). Grahamstown Cathedral: A Guide and Short History. Eastern Cape Reprints. p. A:25. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
  8. ↑ ‘CROSSE, Rev. Frank Parker’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 25 May 2014(subscription required)

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Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles
Preceded by
Edmund Blundell		 Dean of Grahamstown
1934 – 1944 		Succeeded by
Jimmy Beaufort