The Ven Edward Chance Henderson (15 October 1916 – 24 September 1997) was
Archdeacon of Pontefract from 1968 to 1981.
Townley was born in
Newcastle upon Tyne and educated at
Heaton Grammar School and the
University of London. He was
ordained Deacon in 1939, and
Priest in 1940. After a
curacy in
Newcastle upon Tyne he was
Organising Secretary of the
Church Pastoral Aid Society from 1942 to 1945. He held
incumbencies in
Leeds,
Halifax,
Dewsbury
Dewsbury is a minster and market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Hudder ...
and
Darrington.
[.‘HENDERSON, Ven. Edward Chance’, 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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1916 births
21st-century English Anglican priests
20th-century English Anglican priests
People educated at Heaton Grammar School
Alumni of the University of London
Archdeacons of Pontefract
1997 deaths
Clergy from Newcastle upon Tyne
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