Arthur Stuart Duncan-Jones (25 April 1879 – 19 January 1955) was an

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and author in the first half of the 20th century.'' Who was Who 1897-1990'', London,

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, 1991. Arthur Duncan-Jones was the son of another priest, Duncan Llewellyn Davies Jones, curate of

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. Educated at

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and

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, he was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform va ...

in 1912. He held the

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living at

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from 1912 until 1915 when he became

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. He held further incumbencies at St Mary's,

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, and St Paul's,

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, before being elevated to the

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in 1929. He held this post until his death on 19 January 1955. He was father of the philosopher

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and journalist Vincent Stuart Duncan-Jones, who served as General Secretary of the British Peace Committee (the British section of the

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) from 1950 to 1954, and went to Vienna in 1954 as part of the Secretariat of the World Peace Council.

Works

*''Ordered Liberty'', 1917 *''Church Music'', 1920 *''The Aumbry and Hanging Pyx'', 1925. *''Archbishop Laud'', 1927 *''A Good Friday Service'', 1928 *''Story of Chichester Cathedral'', London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1933 *''The Struggle for Religious Freedom in Germany'', 1938 *''From U-Boat to Concentration Camp'', 1938 *''The Crooked Cross'', 1940 *''The Soul of Czechoslovakia'', 1941 *''Witness in the Post-War World'', 1946 *
The Chichester Customary
', 1948

References

External links

*
Bibliographic directory
from

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1879 births People educated at Pocklington School Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Deans of Chichester 1955 deaths {{ChurchofEngland-dean-stub