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Peter Geoffrey Bostock (24 December 1911 – 28 May 1999) was an

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in the second half of the Twentieth century. He was educated at Charterhouse and

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. After a period of study at

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he was

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in 1935 in Mombasa Cathedral Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947 48 pp. 129/130: London, OUP, 1947 and

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in 1937. He was a

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from 1935 to 1958; and

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from 1953 until 1958. Returning to

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he was

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and

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from 1967 to 1967. Finally he was Assistant Secretary of the

and

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of the

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until his retirement in 1971. In retirement he lived in Oxford and was active in support of Amnesty International and CND. He died in 1999. He had a wife Elizabeth, 4 children and 9 grandchildren.

References

1911 births People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford Alumni of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford Archdeacons of Mombasa Archdeacons of Doncaster 1999 deaths {{Kenya-bio-stub