William Herbert Maundrell (5 November 1876 — 17 June 1958) was an English first-class

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er and clergyman, spending nearly twenty years as a chaplain with the Royal Navy Chaplaincy Service.

Life and ecclesiastical duties

The son of Herbert Mandrell, who was an

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, he was born at Nagasaki in November 1876. He was educated in England at The King's School in Canterbury, before matriculating to

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. There he excelled in athletics, gaining a blue in hurdling. While studying for his

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, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Derbyshire at Derby in the

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. Batting once in the match, he was dismissed without scoring by John Hulme. After graduating from Cambridge, Maundrell became an assistant-master at The King's School in 1904, a post he would hold until 1907. The year after taking up his teaching post, he was ordained as a deacon at

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and became a priest in 1906. In December 1907, Maundrell joined the Royal Navy Chaplaincy Service (RNCS). His first appointment as chaplain was aboard , and from later in 1908 to 1910 he was aboard . He survived ''Bedford's'' running aground in the

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in the early hours of 21 August 1910 and was rescued by ''Monmouth''. He led the memorial service for the 18 seamen killed in the accident, with the hymns " Rock of Ages" and "

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" being sung. He was reassigned aboard the following year, serving aboard her until 1914. During 1914, he served aboard both and . Maundrell continued to serve during the First World War, firstly aboard until 1916, and then for the remainder of the war at the shore establishment Royal Naval College, Osborne. Following the war, he continued to serve at shore establishments. He was chaplain at

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at British Malta from 1919 to 1921, before returning to England, where he was chaplain at the Royal Marines Barracks in Portsmouth. His final appointment came in 1927, when he was appointed chaplain at the

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. He retired from the RNCS in 1931, becoming reverend at Ringwould in Kent until 1940. During the Second World War, he was the assistant-secretary to The Mission to Seafarers. Maundrell died in June 1958 at

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maundrell, William 1876 births 1958 deaths People from Nagasaki People educated at The King's School, Canterbury Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge English cricketers Hampshire cricketers English schoolteachers 20th-century English Anglican priests Royal Navy chaplains Royal Navy personnel of World War I