Cyril Evelyn Morton (1885 – 27 July 1932) was an Anglican

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. Educated at

Selwyn College, Cambridge Selwyn College, Cambridge (formally Selwyn College in the University of Cambridge) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1882 by the Selwyn Memorial Committee in memory of George Augustus Selwyn (18 ...

, and

Ripon College Cuddesdon Ripon College Cuddesdon is a Church of England theological college in Cuddesdon, a village outside Oxford, England. The College trains men and women for ministry in the Church of England: stipendiary, non-stipendiary, local ordained and lay mi ...

, he was ordained in 1908 and began his ordained ministry with

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in Hampstead and

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. He was then an

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at Clifton On Dunsmore and Holy Trinity, Beauchamp Avenue, Leamington Spa. In 1929 he became Sub-Dean of the Coventry Cathedral and, in 1931, following a change in the law, the cathedral's first provost. He is buried in the churchyard at Lillington, Warwickshire.Tributes to the late Provost of Coventry, ''Leamington Spa Courier'', 5 August 1932, p6.

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1885 births Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon Provosts and Deans of Coventry 1932 deaths {{UK-reli-bio-stub