Montague Williamson

The Ven. Montague Blamire Williamson , MA [1] was an Anglican priest: the Archdeacon of Bodmin [2] from 1924 until his death on 20 February 1939.[3]

He was born into an ecclesiastical family[4] in 1863 and educated at St John’s College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1887 and began his career as a curate at Ashburton, Devon.[5] After this he was Curate-in-Charge of Rockbeare then Vicar [6] of Bickington.[7] He held further Incumbencies at Padstow and then Falmouth before his Archdeacon’s appointment.[8]

Notes

  1. ↑ NPG details
  2. ↑ London Gazette 28 July 1933
  3. ↑ The Ven. M. B. Williamson. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Feb 21, 1939; pg. 16; Issue 48235
  4. ↑ His father was the Rev. S. Williamson, sometime Vicar of St Andrew’s, Radcliffe, Lancashire ‘WILLIAMSON, Ven. Montague Blamire’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 26 Aug 2012
  5. ↑ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
  6. ↑ Kelly's Directory of Devon 1902
  7. ↑ ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE .The Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton, England), Wednesday, July 07, 1897; pg. [1]; Issue 5329. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.
  8. ↑ Cornwall Council
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Henry Houssemayne Du Boulay		 Archdeacon of Bodmin
1924–1939 		Succeeded by
William Harrison Rigg