Eric Evans (Archdeacon of Warrington)

Eric Herbert Evans (31 January 1902 – 25 December 1977) was the Archdeacon of Warrington from 1959[1] until 1970.

Evans was educated at Liverpool Institute and Bishop Wilson Theological College, Isle of Man; and ordained in 1930.[2] After curacies in Liverpool and Southport, he was Chaplain at the Liverpool branch of the Mission to Seamen. He was Vicar of Crossens and then a Chaplain in the RNVR during World War II.[3] He was Vicar of Southport from 1946 to 1948; and then of Meols until his retirement.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ News in Brief. The Times (London, England), 5 December 1958; p. 6; Issue 54326
  2. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1948 p 305: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1948
  3. ↑ http://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/pageturner.cfm?id=93232198&mode=transcription
  4. ↑ ‘EVANS, Ven. Eric Herbert’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014, accessed 2 August 2015


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