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Lawrence Jackson (Provost)
Lawrence Jackson (22 March 192615 November 2002) was an Anglican priest. A Yorkshireman, Jackson trained for the priesthood at King's College London (spending his final year at St Boniface College, Warminster) and was ordained in 1951. He was a Curate at St Margaret's Church, Leicester and then Vicar of Wymeswold. After further incumbencies at St James the Greater, Leicester and Holy Trinity, Coventry Coventry ( or ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its ..., he was appointed Provost of Blackburn in October 1973. He retired in December 1992 and died in 2002. References 1926 births 2002 deaths Alumni of the Theological Department of King's College London Associates of King's College London Provosts and Deans of Blackburn People from Hessle {{UK-reli-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide . Adherents of Anglicanism are called ''Anglicans''; they are also called ''Episcopalians'' in some countries. The majority of Anglicans are members of national or regional ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, which forms the third-largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. These provinces are in full communion with the See of Canterbury and thus with the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom the communion refers to as its '' primus inter pares'' (Latin, 'first among equals'). The Archbishop calls the decennial Lambeth Conference, chairs the meeting of primates, and is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St James The Greater, Leicester
St James the Greater, Leicester is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Leicester, Leicestershire. It is located south of the city centre of Leicester, on the London Road ( A6), opposite Victoria Park. History The church, which was founded as a daughter church of St Peter's Church, Leicester in 1881, was originally a temporary wooden church. A decade later the decision was taken to build a permanent church due to the increase in the congregation. The work was entrusted to the architect, Henry Langton Goddard of Leicester. On the advice of Bishop Mandell Creighton, Bishop of Peterborough, Goddard visited several churches in northern Italy. Bishop Creighton wanted the new church to be architectural impressive to reflect its status in Leicester. After visiting Italy, Goddard's external design for St James was influenced by Torcello Cathedral on the Venetian lagoon and its interior decor from churches in Venice and Florence. The foundation stone was laid on 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associates Of King's College London
Associate may refer to: Academics * Associate degree, a two-year educational degree in the United States, and some areas of Canada * Associate professor, an academic rank at a college or university * Technical associate or Senmonshi, a Japanese educational degree * Associate of the Royal College of Science, an honorary degree-equivalent award presented by Imperial College London * Teaching associate, an academic teaching position usually requiring a graduate degree * Research associate, an academic research position usually requiring a graduate degree Business * Employee * Business partner * Associate, an independent (often self-employed) person working as if directly employed by a company * Associate company, an accounting and business valuation concept * Coworker, a partner or colleague in business or at work. Health care * Clinical research associate (CRA), a clinical trial monitor which oversees the conduct of clinical trials in study sites and helps protecting study ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alumni Of The Theological Department Of King's College London
Alumni (singular: alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine)) are former students of a school, college, or university who have either attended or graduated in some fashion from the institution. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women. The word is Latin and means "one who is being (or has been) nourished". The term is not synonymous with "graduate"; one can be an alumnus without graduating (Burt Reynolds, alumnus but not graduate of Florida State, is an example). The term is sometimes used to refer to a former employee or member of an organization, contributor, or inmate. Etymology The Latin noun ''alumnus'' means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from PIE ''*h₂el-'' (grow, nourish), and it is a variant of the Latin verb ''alere'' "to nourish".Merriam-Webster: alumnus .. Separate, but from the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1926 Births
Events January * January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos (general), Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. * January 8 **Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Kingdom of Hejaz, Hejaz. ** Bảo Đại, Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of Vietnam. * January 12 – Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiere their radio program ''Sam 'n' Henry'', in which the two white performers portray two black characters from Harlem looking to strike it rich in the big city (it is a precursor to Gosden and Correll's more popular later program, ''Amos 'n' Andy''). * January 16 – A BBC comic radio play broadcast by Ronald Knox, about a workers' revolution, causes a panic in London. * January 21 – The Belgian Parliament accepts the Locarno Treaties. * January 26 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system at his London laboratory for members of the Royal Institution and a report ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Frayne
David Frayne was an Anglican priest and Provost of Blackburn Cathedral. He was educated at Reigate Grammar School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and ordained in 1961. He was Curate at St Michael, East Wickham, and then Priest in charge of St Barnabas, Downham. He held incumbencies at The Barn Church, Kew, Caterham, Redcliffe, Bristol, and Bedminster before he was appointed Provost of Blackburn in December 1992. Frayne retired in September 2001 as Dean Dean may refer to: People * Dean (given name) * Dean (surname), a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin * Dean (South Korean singer), a stage name for singer Kwon Hyuk * Dean Delannoit, a Belgian singer most known by the mononym Dean Titles * ... following the reclassification of all Provosts the previous year. References 1934 births People educated at Reigate Grammar School Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford Provosts and Deans of Blackburn Living people {{UK-reli-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Robinson (priest)
Norman Robinson (18 February 1905 – 27 April 1973) was an Anglican priest. He was educated at Ulverston Grammar School and Liverpool University and began his working life as a teacher of Mathematics at Quarry Bank School, Liverpool Ordained in 1935, he held curacies at Mossley Hill and Southport before a spell at Lancaster Priory. After incumbencies at Newbarns, Hawcoat, Penrith and West Derby he was appointed Provost of Blackburn in 1961.The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ..., Monday, Aug 07, 1961; pg. 10; Issue 55153; col C ''Ecclesiastical News” He retired in 1972 and died a year later. Notes 1905 births People educated at Ulverston Grammar School Alumni of the University of Liverpool Provosts and Deans of Blackburn 1973 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provost Of Blackburn
The Dean of Blackburn is the head (''primus inter pares'' – first among equals) and chair of the chapter of canons, which is the ruling body of Blackburn Cathedral. The dean and chapter are based at the Cathedral Church of Blackburn St Mary the Virgin with St Paul in Blackburn. The post was designated as provost before September 2000, which was then the equivalent of dean at most English Cathedrals. The cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese of Blackburn and seat of the Bishop of Blackburn. The incumbent dean is Peter Howell-Jones, who was installed on 25 March 2017 after being announced in November 2016. List of Deans Provosts * 1931–1936: John Sinker * 1936–1961: William Kay * 1961–1972: Norman Robinson * 1973–1992: Lawrence Jackson * December 1992 – September 2000: David Frayne (became Dean) Deans * September 2000 – September 2001: David Frayne (previously Provost) * November 2001 – 17 June 2016 (res.): Christopher Armstrong Christopher John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coventry
Coventry ( or ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its city status until the Middle Ages. The city is governed by Coventry City Council. Historic counties of England, Formerly part of Warwickshire until 1451, Coventry had a population of 345,328 at the 2021 census, making it the tenth largest city in England and the 12th largest in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest city in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, after Birmingham, from which it is separated by an area of Green belt (United Kingdom), green belt known as the Meriden Gap, and the third largest in the wider Midlands after Birmingham and Leicester. The city is part of a larger conurbation known as the Coventry and Bedworth Urban Area, which in 2021 had a population of 389,603. Coventry is east-south-east of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wymeswold
Wymeswold () is a village and civil parish in the Charnwood (borough), Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England. It is in the north of Leicestershire, and north-east of Loughborough. The village has a population of about 1,000, measured at 1,296 in the 2011 census. It is close to Prestwold and Burton on the Wolds in Leicestershire, and the Nottinghamshire villages of Rempstone and Willoughby on the Wolds. History and geography There used to be a school in the village run by Thomas Rossell Potter, Thomas Potter in the nineteenth century on Elm Street."Thomas Rossell Potter" in Dictionary of National Biography now in the public domain The school was moved to a site to the south of the village when it expanded in the 1970s. The village was formerly the site of RAF Wymeswold, a memorial to which can be seen on the wall of Wymeswold pharmacy remembers when a Wellington bomber on a night training exercise crashed up on a hill nearby, just two miles from the airfield, on 25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
