Ronald Stanhope More O’Ferrall was the fourth

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from 1926 until 1940. O'Ferrall was born in 1890 and educated at

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and

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. He was ordained in 1915 and was a

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after which he was an

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and a

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at its adjacent school. He was a

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before his ordination to the

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. On his return to

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he became an

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and was the

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and then the

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as well as a

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at the nearby

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. In 1947 he became Provost of

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, a position he held until 1953. He then held two further incumbencies at

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(and Assistant Bishop of Gloucester) and

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before retiring in 1958. He died on 10 October 1973.''Obituary Rt Rev R.S.M. O'Ferrall'',

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, 13 October 1973; pg. 16; Issue 58912; col F

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* Cathédrale Saint Laurent Ambohimanoro 1890 births People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 20th-century Anglican bishops in Africa Anglican bishops of Madagascar Holders of a Lambeth degree 1973 deaths Provosts and Deans of Derby {{Madagascar-bio-stub