Fred Pickering (18 November 1919 - 22 January 2010) was

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from 1974 to 1984. Pickering was educated at Preston Grammar School, St Peter's College Oxford and St Aidan's College Birkenhead. He began his career with

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in Leyland and

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. He was Organising Secretary. for The Church Pastoral Aid Society from 1948 to 1951. He held incumbencies at All Saints,

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, St John,

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and St Cuthbert,

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. He was also

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of East Haringey from 1968 to 1973; and

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to the Bishop of Edmonton from 1973 to 1984.‘PICKERING, Ven. Fred’, 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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1919 births 2010 deaths Archdeacons of Hampstead Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford Alumni of St Aidans College Birkenhead People educated at Preston Grammar School {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub