William Purcell (priest)

William Henry Samuel Purcell (1912-1994) was Archdeacon of Dorking from 1968 until 1982.

Biography

Purcell was born in or near to Norwich on 22 January 1912.^[1] Purcell was educated at Norwich School and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and ordained in 1938.^[2] After a curacy in Headingley, Yorkshire he was raised to the position of a Minor Canon of Ripon Cathedral in that county. He held incumbencies (as priest leading a church) in Leeds, Yorkshire and Epsom, Surrey before his appointment as Archdeacon which he retired at the age of 70.^[3] He lived a further 12 years until 4 June 1994.

Notes

↑ Personal Column The Times (London, England), Tuesday, June 7, 1994; pg. 20; Issue 64974.
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76 p 806 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
↑ ‘PURCELL, Ven. William Henry Samuel’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 1 Feb 2014

Church of England titles
Preceded by Kenneth Dawson Evans	Archdeacon of Dorking 1968–1982	Succeeded by Peter Graham Hogben

Archdeacons of Dorking

Ronald Irwin Cyril Golding-Bird Edward Newill David Loveday Windsor Roberts Kenneth Evans William Purcell Peter Hogben Christopher Herbert Mark Wilson Julian Henderson Paul Bryer

Diocese of Guildford

Guildford Cathedral Willow Grange, Guildford Diocesan House, Guildford

Office holders	The Bishop of Guildford, Andrew Watson The Bishop suffragan of Dorking, vacant AEO: Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough The Dean of Guildford, Dianna Gwilliams The Archdeacon of Surrey, Stuart Beake The Archdeacon of Dorking, Paul Bryer

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