Michael Roy Sinker (called Roy; 28 September 19088 March 1994) was Archdeacon of Stow from 1963 to 1967. Sinker was educated at Haileybury, Clare College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon. He was ordained in 1933. After a curacy in Dalston he was

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to the South African Church Railway Mission from 1935 to 1938. He then served at

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, Dalton-in-Furness, and Saffron Walden before his time as

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; and at St Matthew, Ipswich afterwards.‘SINKER, Rev. Canon Michael Roy’, 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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1908 births 1994 deaths Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College Archdeacons of Stow Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub