Harry Kingsley Percival Smith (5 June 1898 – 27 January 1965) was
Archdeacon of Lynn from 1956 until 1961.
He was educated at
Haileybury;
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and
Westcott House, Cambridge. During
World War I he served with the
Northamptonshire Regiment. He was
ordained in 1922
[ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929 p1195] and began his ecclesiastical career with
Curacies in
Cambridge,
London and
Maidstone. After this he was
Priest in charge of St Mary of Nazareth,
West Wickham then held
incumbencies at
Yaxley,
Fenstanton
Fenstanton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, south of St Ives in Huntingdonshire, a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and historic county. Fenstanton lies on the south side of the River Ouse.
Known as ''St ...
,
Blofield
Blofield is a village and civil parish in the Broadland district of Norfolk, England. The parish includes Blofield and the hamlets of Blofield Heath and Blofield Corner and, according to the 2001 census, had a population of 3,221, increasing to ...
and
Foulsham
Foulsham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located north-east of Dereham and north-west of Norwich. Foulsham is renowned in the local area for its unspoilt nature and the number of Sixteenth and Sev ...
before his
Archdeacon
An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that o ...
’s appointment. From 1961 he was Adviser on Christian Stewardship to the
Diocese of Norwich.
Before the Second World War he was an avowed admirer of Hitler and attended a conference in the summer of 1939 in Berlin organised by the Anglo German Brotherhood.
However, as
Julia Boyd
Julia Boyd is a British non-fiction author.
''The Washington Post'' called ''Travellers in the Third Reich'' "riveting". It was awarded the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History.
''The Times'' called ''A Village in the Third Reich'' a "fa ...
observes in her book ''Travelling in The Third Reich'', "his enthusiasm for Nazi Germany did nothing to damage his career."
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1898 births
1965 deaths
People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Alumni of Westcott House, Cambridge
Archdeacons of Lynn
People from Broadland (district)
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