George William Daniell (15 March 1853 -11 March 2000) was an English
Anglican
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priest
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: he was the
Archdeacon of Kingston-upon-Thames from 1904 until 1916.
Daniell was born into an ecclesiastical family and educated at
Hurstpierpoint
Hurstpierpoint is a village in West Sussex, England, southwest of Burgess Hill, and west of Hassocks railway station. It sits in the civil parish of Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common which has an area of 2029.88 ha and a population of ...
and
Balliol College, Oxford
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.
He was
chaplain of King's College London,
chaplain
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of
Dulwich College
Dulwich College is a 2–19 independent, day and boarding school for boys in Dulwich, London, England. As a public school, it began as the College of God's Gift, founded in 1619 by Elizabethan actor Edward Alleyn, with the original purpose of ...
,
Chancellor
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of
Southwark Cathedral
Southwark Cathedral ( ) or The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie, Southwark, London, lies on the south bank of the River Thames close to London Bridge. It is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Southwark. ...
from 1909 until
[” The Clergy List” London: Kelly’s, 1913] 1916; and finally
Vicar
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of St Matthew's,
Redhill until his retirement in January 1994: there is a memorial to him in the chancel.
References
1853 births
1931 deaths
People educated at Hurstpierpoint College
Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
Archdeacons of Kingston upon Thames
Chaplains of King's College London
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