Arthur Guinness Livingstone (1840 - 12 May 1902) was an

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who was

Archdeacon of Sudbury The Archdeacon of Sudbury is a senior cleric in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The archdeacon is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy in its five rural deaneries; Clare, Ixworth, Lavenham, Sudbury and Thingoe. ...

from 1901 to 1902.

Biography

Livingstone was born in 1840, the fifth son of William Livingstone, of

Westport, County Mayo Westport (, historically anglicised as ''Cahernamart'') is a town in County Mayo in Ireland.Westport Before 1800 by Michael Kelly published in Cathair Na Mart 2019 It is at the south-east corner of Clew Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean on th ...

, and was educated at

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, where he graduated in 1864. He was admitted

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following his graduation, and ordained

in 1865. His first

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was at St Peter in the East,

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, but two years later he was appointed as Curate of

Bisley, Gloucestershire Bisley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bisley-with-Lypiatt, in the Stroud district, in Gloucestershire, England, about east of Stroud. The once-extensive manor included Stroud and Chalford, Thrupp, Oakridge, Bussage, ...

, in 1867. After service as Assistant Chaplain to one of the English churches in

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from 1871 to 1872, he was briefly Curate of Longsdon, Worchestershire (1872–74), and

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, near

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(1874–77). In 1877 he accepted from Sir Henry Bunbury the vicarage of

Mildenhall, Suffolk Mildenhall is a market town and civil parish in Suffolk, England. The town is near the A11 and is located north-west of Ipswich, the county town.Ordnance Survey (2006). ''OS Explorer Map 226 - Ely & Newmarket''. . The large Royal Air Force stati ...

, in the

diocese of Ely The Diocese of Ely is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury. It is headed by the Bishop of Ely, who sits at Ely Cathedral in Ely. There is one suffragan (subordinate) bishop, the Bishop of Huntingdon. The diocese now co ...

, which he held till 1898. He was made

Rural Dean In the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion as well as some Lutheran denominations, a rural dean is a member of clergy who presides over a "rural deanery" (often referred to as a deanery); "ruridecanal" is the corresponding adjective. ...

of Mildenhall in 1894, and from 1898 held an honorary

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. He was appointed

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in 1901.Church Weekly Newspaper Archives January 11, 1901 - Page 11 Livingstone died at the residence of his son-in-law, the Rev. R. W. Barber, at

Thurston, Suffolk Thurston is a village and a parish in Suffolk situated about east of Bury St Edmunds and west of Stowmarket. In mid-2005, Thurston's estimated population was 3,260, making it one of the larger communities in the area, falling slightly to 3,232 ...

, on 12 May 1902.

References

1840 births 1902 deaths Alumni of the Queen's College, Oxford Archdeacons of Sudbury Christian clergy from County Mayo People from Westport, County Mayo {{Christianity-bio-stub