Thomas Estlin Prichard (20 December 1910 – 8 August 1975) was the
Archdeacon of Maidstone
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from 1968 until 1972
Prichard was educated at
Clifton College
''The spirit nourishes within''
, established = 160 years ago
, closed =
, type = Public schoolIndependent boarding and day school
, religion = Christian
, president =
, head_label = Head of College
, head ...
and
Exeter College, Oxford
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; and
ordained
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in 1934. After
curacies
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in
Lambeth
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and
Ashford Ashford may refer to:
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*Ashford, County Wicklow
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* Ashford, Kent, a town
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he was
Vicar
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of
Boxley
Boxley is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England.
It lies below the slope of the North Downs approximately northeast of the centre of Maidstone town. The civil parish has a population of 7,144 (2001 census), inc ...
from 1943 to 1954; and then of
Thanet Thanet may refer to:
*Isle of Thanet, a former island, now a peninsula, at the most easterly point of Kent, England
*Thanet District, a local government district containing the island
*Thanet College, former name of East Kent College
*Thanet Canal, ...
from 1954 to 1968.
[‘PRICHARD, Rev. Canon Thomas Estlin’, 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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References
1910 births
Archdeacons of Maidstone
1975 deaths
Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
People educated at Clifton College
People from Thanet (district)
People from Boxley
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