Harold Ormandy Fielding (13 November 1912 – 30 August 1987) was an

Anglican Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...

priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particu ...

who served as Archdeacon of Rochdale from 1972 to 1982. Born in 1912, the son of Harold W. Fielding and Florence Fielding (née Ormandy), he was educated at

Farnworth Grammar School Farnworth Grammar School was a grammar school founded in 1715 at Farnworth, Lancashire. The school was first established at Moses Gate and educated boys. It relocated to Bolton Road in 1922 and became coeducational at the same time. It closed i ...

and

Magdalene College, Cambridge Magdalene College ( ) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary ...

, and then trained for the Anglican ministry at Ripon College Cuddesdon. Fielding married to Elsie Whillance at St James' Church, Farnworth in 1939. They had four children: Timothy, Robert, Catherine, and John. After

curacies A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...

at St Mary's, Leigh and St Paul's, Walkden, he was

Vicar A vicar (; Latin: ''vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English pref ...

of St James',

New Bury Farnworth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, southeast of Bolton, 4.3 miles south-west of Bury (7 km), and northwest of Manchester. Historically in Lancashire, Farnworth lies on the River Irw ...

from 1944 to 1965. Fielding was then

of St Peter's, Bolton from 1965 to 1982, during which time he also became Archdeacon of Rochdale. After his retirement, he lived in

Bromley Cross Bromley Cross is a residential area of South Turton in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It gives its name to a larger electoral ward, which includes Eagley, Egerton, and Cox Green. Historically part of Lancashir ...

, a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton. He published a book in 1983 about

James Slade James Slade, (1783–1860), generally remembered as Canon Slade, was the Vicar of St Peter's Church, Bolton le Moors, Lancashire, England from 1817 to 1856. Life James Slade was born in Daventry, Northamptonshire on 2 May 1783 to the Reverend ...

, Vicar of St Peter's, Bolton, one of Fielding's 19th-century predecessors. He died on 30 August 1987, aged 74.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fielding, HaroldOrmandy 1912 births People educated at Farnworth Grammar School Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon Archdeacons of Rochdale 1987 deaths