George F Terry
George Frederick Terry (1864–1919) trained as an architect before taking holy orders to become a deacon in 1892 and priest in 1893. He was appointed as Curate at St Saviours in the Meadows, Nottingham in 1892 and then at St Peter's Notting Hill in Kensington in 1894. In 1901, he became Vicar of All Souls', Hampstead in 1901 and from there he became Rector of the Church of St John the Evangelist, Edinburgh in 1909.[1]
While he was Rector of St John's, in August 1914, he founded a Scout Troop and became its first Scoutmaster.[2]
He was Rector of St Johns until 1919, when he succumbed to the flu pandemic that swept the world after the Great War.
He and his wife are buried in St John's churchyard, together with a tablet in memory of their son, John.