The Venerable Robert Cecil Sylvester Devenish (22 November 1888 – 23 August 1973) was

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of Lahore from 1934 to 1940. He was educated at

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and ordained in 1913.‘DEVENISH, Rev. Robert Cecil Silvester’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 201
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to the Forces from 1915 to 1919 and then a

with the

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. He was

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of St Paul's Naval and Garrison Church, Esquimalt from 1941 to 1946;

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from 1946 to 1951 and Assistant Priest of St Mary Abbots,

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from 1951 to 1959.

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