Kenneth Child

Kenneth Child (6 March 1916 – 25 October 1983) was Archdeacon of Sudbury from 1970 until his death.

Child was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield and the University of Leeds. After a period of study at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield he was ordained in 1942.^[1] His first post was a curacy at Tonge Moor.^[2] He was a Chaplain to the Forces from 1944 to 1947 when he returned to Tonge Moor as its Vicar. He was Chaplain of Guy’s Hospital from 1955 to 1959 when he became Rector of Newmarket, a post he held for ten years; also serving as its Rural Dean from 1963. He was then appointed Rector of The Thurlows with Little Bradley;^[3] and an Archdeacon the following year.

References

↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
↑ ‘CHILD, Ven. Kenneth’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 5 March 2013
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Church of England titles
Preceded by David Rokeby Maddock	Archdeacon of Sudbury 1970–1983	Succeeded by Donald John Smith

Archdeacons of Sudbury

High Medieval	William son of Humphrey Baldwin of Boulogne Reiner Roger Robert of Gloucester Alan de Beccles Roger Pincerna William de Clare Thomas Ingoldsthorpe Constantine de Mildenhall Ralph de Fornham Ralph of York

Late Medieval	Henry de Bradenham Alan de Ely Simon de Creake Firmin de Lavenham Gilbert de Marewell Richard Lyng Walter Elvedon Thomas de Winchester Thomas de Methelwold Henry de la Zouche William Graa de Trusthope John Hambleton John de Lincoln Hugh Sturmy Thomas Grene Hugh Gaudeby Thomas Hetersete Richard Maudeleyn Thomas Hetersete (again) Eudo de la Zouche Roger Wodehele Thomas Rodborne Clement Denston John Wiggenhall John Selot Nicholas Goldwell John Jeffreys Thomas Shenkwyn John Finneys William Stillington Thomas Larke Richard Woleman Miles Spencer

Early modern	Thomas Aldriche John Still Tertullian Pyne Cuthbert Norris Theophilus Kent Anthony Sparrow John Spencer Nicholas Clagett Brampton Gurdon John Chapman John Gooch George Glover

Late modern	Lord Arthur Hervey Frank Chapman Arthur Livingstone George Hodges William Farmiloe Eric Buckley Maxwell Maxwell-Gumbleton, Bishop of Dunwich Hugh Norton Harry Barton David Maddock, Bishop of Dunwich Kenneth Child Donald Smith Richard Garrard John Cox David Brierley David Jenkins

Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich

St Edmundsbury Cathedral The Bishop's House, Ipswich St Nicholas Centre, Ipswich

Office holders	Acting Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, David Thomson The bishop-designate, Martin Seeley The Bishop suffragan of Dunwich (Vacant) AEO: Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough The Dean of St Edmundsbury, Frances Ward The Archdeacon of Sudbury, David Jenkins The Archdeacon of Suffolk, Ian Morgan The Archdeacon of Ipswich (Vacant)

Historic offices	Provosts of St Edmundsbury (1929–2000; see Dean of St Edmundsbury)