Frederick Boreham (7 June 1888 – 1 February 1966) was

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and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Career

Boreham was born in

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, and educated at St Aidan's College, Birkenhead and St John's Hall, Durham. He served as a missionary in

Mianyang Mianyang (; formerly known as Mienchow) is the second largest prefecture-level city of Sichuan province in Southwest China. Located in north-central Sichuan covering an area of consisting of Jiangyou, a county-level city, five counties, and thre ...

(formerly spelt ''Mien Yong''),

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

(formerly ''Szechwan''), west China under the

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from 1917 to 1924 and again from 1928 to 1934, and married a fellow missionary Caroline Mildred Slater in 1918. He succeeded Lewis Frederick Havermale as editor of '' The West China Missionary News'' in 1931, a position he held until 1934. He was listed in the 1933–1934 directory of the

West China Union University The West China Union University ( zh, t=華西協合大學), also called West China University or Huaxi University, was a private university in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It was the product of the collective efforts of four Protestant, denominational ...

as a teacher of History. He was vicar of Holy Trinity Hull from 1937 to 1947. He also served as Archdeacon of Western Szechwan prior to his appointment as Archdeacon of Cornwall.''Ecclesiastical News.''

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(London, England), Saturday, Oct 01, 1949; pg. 7; Issue 51501 He became a chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of her coronation on 5 August 1952, and remained in that post until his death in 1966. There is a memorial to him at

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Personal life

Boreham married Caroline Mildred Slater and had four children, three of whom survived into adulthood: Peter, Cicely and

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1888 births 1966 deaths 20th-century English Anglican priests Archdeacons of Cornwall Archdeacons of Western Szechwan Anglican missionaries in Sichuan Alumni of St Aidans College Birkenhead Alumni of St John's College, Durham Academic staff of West China Union University {{UK-reli-bio-stub

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