The Ven. George Youell (23 December 1910 - 21 January 1995) was Archdeacon of Stoke-on-Trent from 1956 to 1970. Harthill was educated at

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. He was

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in 1933, and

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in 1934. After a

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at St John,

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, 1933 he was Clerical Director of the

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he was a

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. When peace returned he held incumbencies at

Ightfield Ightfield is a small village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 529. Within the civil parish boundaries is another small village - Calverhall. Ightfield is situated in a rural area, wi ...

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and

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. After his years as

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he was a

Canon Residentiary A canon (from the Latin , itself derived from the Greek , , "relating to a rule", "regular") is a member of certain bodies in subject to an ecclesiastical rule. Originally, a canon was a cleric living with others in a clergy house or, later, i ...

at Ely Cathedral, serving until his retirement in 1981.‘YOUELL, Rev. Canon George’, 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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20th-century English Anglican priests 1995 deaths Alumni of Keele University Alumni of St Stephen's House, Oxford Archdeacons of Stoke 1910 births {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub