Henry Kingsley Archdall (2 March 1886 – 27 February 1976) was an Australian academic and clergyman. After teaching at

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, in Australia and in New Zealand, he became Principal of St David's College,

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and Chancellor of St David's Cathedral, then headmaster of

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Life and church

Archdall was born in Balmain, Sydney,

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, the son of an Anglican clergyman. After studying at Sydney Grammar School and Sydney University, where he obtained a first-class degree in philosophy and classics, he studied at

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for a degree in Christian Ethics. He then became a

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and Lecturer at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1911, becoming Dean in 1914. Having been ordained as an Anglican priest, he returned to Australia as

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of Christchurch,

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and Dean of the

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. After serving as headmaster and chaplain of

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, New South Wales from 1919 to 1926, he was then headmaster and chaplain of

from 1926 to 1935. Archdall then returned to Britain as chaplain and director of religious studies at

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before succeeding

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as Principal of St David's College (as Lampeter University was then called). He strengthened the work of the college as a centre for training clergy, emphasising in particular the need for a good general university education. In his capacity as Principal of St David's, he became a Fellow of

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in 1941. He became Chancellor of St David's Cathedral in 1940, and was appointed as an emeritus Canon in 1956. He was a visiting fellow at

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(1954–55), visiting professor at

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(1954–57) and Episcopal Chaplain at

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(1957–59). He married Laura Madden and they had three sons (two of whom were killed during the Second World War) and one daughter.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Archdall, Henry Kingsley 1886 births 1976 deaths Australian academics People educated at Sydney Grammar School University of Sydney alumni Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford People associated with the University of Wales, Lampeter 20th-century Australian Anglican priests Australian schoolteachers Principals of St David's College