Stephen Jack Marriott (born 8 November 1886; died 25 December 1964) was an Anglican

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, most notably

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from 1946 to 1951. Donaldson was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge and

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in 1913. He served curacies in

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, Rye Park and Folkestone. He was a temporary Naval Chaplain and RAF from 1917 to 1918. He served incumbencies at

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and

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. In 1937 he became a

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.‘MARRIOTT, Rev. Stephen Jack’, 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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20th-century English Anglican priests 1886 births Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge 1964 deaths Archdeacons of Westminster {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub