George Arbuthnot, DD ( 24 May 1846 – 9 November 1922) was Archdeacon of Coventry from 1908 until his death. Arbuthnot was born in

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and educated at Eton College and

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. He was ordained in 1872, and was

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at St Nicholas,

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until 1873, when he became its vicar. In 1879 he became the incumbent at

Stratford upon Avon Stratford-upon-Avon (), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, north-wes ...

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