Francis House

The Ven. Francis Harry House OBE MA was Archdeacon of Macclesfield from 1967 to 1978.

Born into an ecclesiastical family on 9 August 1908,[1] he was educated at St George's School, Harpenden and Wadham College, Oxford and ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1937. He was successively: Assistant Missioner at the Pembroke College, Cambridge Mission at Walworth; Travelling Secretary of the World’s Student Christian Federation at Geneva from 1938 to 1940.; Curate of Leeds Parish Church from 1940 to 1942;[2] Overseas Assistant of the BBC Religious Broadcasting Department in London from 1942 to 1944; representative of World Student Relief in Greece from 1944 to 1946; Secretary of the Youth Department World Council of Churches in Geneva and the World Conference of Christian Youth, Oslo in 1946 and 1947 respectively;Head of Religious Broadcasting at the BBC in London from 1947 to 1955; Associate General Secretary of the World Council of Churches in Geneva from 1955 to 1962; and Vicar of St Giles, Pontefract [3] before his years as an Archdeacon.

He died on 1 September 2004.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ His father was Canon William Joseph House, DD sometime Rector of Copford ‘House, Ven. Francis Harry’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011 ; online edn, Nov 2011 accessed 16 July 2012
  2. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
  3. ↑ Church web site
  4. ↑ The Ven Francis House The Times(London, England), Tuesday, September 14, 2004; pg. 33; Issue 68180
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Harry Patrick Saunders		 Archdeacon of Macclesfield
1967–1978 		Succeeded by
Rennie Simpson


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