Charles D’Aguilar Lawrence (27 November 1847 - 14 April 1935) was
Archdeacon of Suffolk
The Archdeacon of Suffolk is a senior cleric in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
The archdeacon is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy in the territory of the archdeaconry.
History
Originally in the Dioceses of No ...
from 1901 to 1917.
The second son of the Rev. C. W. Lawrence, sometime
incumbent
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of St Luke, Liverpool, he was educated at
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and
Christ Church, Oxford
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.
Ordained
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in 1874,his first posts were
curacies
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at
Redenhall then
Paddington
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. He was
Rector
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of
Bermondsey
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from 1879 to 1889; and then of
Lowestoft
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from 1889 to 1901. He was
Rural Dean
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of
Lothingland
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from 1892 to 1901; and then of
Wilford
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from 1901 to 1911.
[‘LAWRENCE, Ven. Charles D’Aguilar’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 201]
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References
1847 births
1935 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Archdeacons of Suffolk
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