Hugh Heywood
The Very Rev Hugh Christopher Lempriere Heywood[1] (5 November 1896 – 8 May 1987) was an eminent Anglican priest[2] and author[3] in the mid 20th century.
He was born on 5 November 1896[4] and educated at Haileybury and Trinity College, Cambridge. After World War I service with the Manchester Regiment[5] He transferred to the Indian Army in 1917 and was attached to the 74th Punjabis. He served as a staff captain from 1919 until 1922. He retired in January 1923. He then returned to England, studied at Cambridge University and was ordained at Ely in 1926.[6] He held curacies at St Andrew’s the Great, Cambridge and Holy Cross, Greenford after which he was a Fellow, Tutor and Dean at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge until 1945. From then until 1969 he was Provost of Southwell Minster.[7] He spent the remaining years of his life as Vicar of Upton, Nottinghamshire.
He died on 8 May 1987.[8] He had married Margaret Bizard in 1920 and had a son and a daughter.
Notes
- ↑ NPG details
- ↑ Sequestrators of Eakring Rectory
- ↑ Amongst others he wrote "The Worshipping Community", 1938; "On a Golden Thread", 1960; and "Finding Happiness in Remembering", 1978 British Library web site accessed 19:03 GMT Thursday 15 July 2010
- ↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
- ↑ London Gazette
- ↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
- ↑ BBC forum
- ↑ Who was Who (ibid)
- Beeson, Trevor. Priests and Prelates: The Daily Telegraph Clerical Obituaries - The very Reverend Hugh Heywood. Google Books
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