Herbert Reeve (28 May 1868 – 24 February 1956) was a

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man and

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with benefices in

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. He was

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of Waitara before returning to England.

Early life

A son of Dr Edmund Reeve, surgeon, of

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He proceeded to

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, where he was admitted in July 1893 and matriculated in the Michaelmas term of the same year. He graduated BA in 1896 and was promoted to MA in 1901. While at Cambridge, he played

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for his college. Reeve had two brothers, Charles Ernest and Arthur, the latter also a clergyman of the Church of England.

Career

In 1896 Reeve was ordained a

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and in 1897 a

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. In 1896 he became

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at St Matthew's,

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, transferring as Curate to

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in 1899. In 1903 he resigned his junior post there to migrate to New Zealand and take up the role of Vicar of Inglewood, where he remained until 1907. For a year he was a

priest of the diocese of Auckland, serving the district of East Taranaki, then from 1908 to 1911 was Vicar of the Holy Sepulchre parish,

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, and from 1911 to 1924 Vicar of

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. He was also

of Waitara from 1915 to 1924. He then returned home to Norfolk, where he was Rector of Brancaster from 1924 to 1945 and

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from 1933 to 1945.

While in New Zealand, Reeve married Nora Trischler Merton, the elder daughter of George Henry Merton, head master of the Cathedral School of

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. Reeve died in February 1956, when he was living at 60

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. He left a widow, Nora Trischler Reeve, and an estate valued at £2,209. Mrs Reeve died in 1960."REEVE, Nora T, aged 76" in Register of Deaths for Ealing Registration District, vol. 5e (1960), p. 37

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Reeve, Herbert 1868 births 1956 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 20th-century English Anglican priests English Anglican missionaries People educated at Gresham's School Anglican archdeacons in New Zealand