(Edwin) Lisle Marsden,
M.A. (Lambeth) (20 September 1886 - 21 June 1960) was
Archdeacon of Lindsey
The Archdeacon of Stow and Lindsey is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Lincoln.
History
The Archdeaconry of Stow is an ancient division of Lincoln diocese; the first archdeacons are recorded from around 1092 (t ...
from 1948 until his death.
Marsen was educated at
The King's School, Chester after which he a
clerk with the
National Provincial Bank. He was
ordained Deacon in 1912, and
Priest in 1913. After a
curacy in
Spalding he was a
Chaplain
A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a Minister (Christianity), minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a laity, lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secularity, secular institution (such as a hosp ...
to the
British Armed Forces
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from 1917 to 1919 during which time he was
mentioned in dispatches
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. He was
Vicar of
Pinchbeck from 1918 to 1921;
Aspull from 1921 to 1928. He became the
incumbent at St Michael and All Angels,
Wigan in 1928; and of
Great Grimsby in 1951. He was
Proctor in Convocation from 1942 to 1948, and again from 1951 until his death.
[‘MARSDEN, Ven. E(dwyn) Lisle’, 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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Notes
1886 births
1948 deaths
Archdeacons of Lindsey
20th-century English Anglican priests
Holders of a Lambeth degree
People educated at The King's School, Chester
English bankers
People from Wigan
20th-century English businesspeople
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