Henry Lafone

Henry Pownall Malins Lafone[1] (1867 - 1955) was an Anglican Archdeacon in the first half half of the Twentieth century.[2]

He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge[3] and Wells Theological College; and ordained in 1890.[4] After a curacy at St Mary's Church, Portsea he held incumbencies in Ambleside, Carlisle, Kendal, Barrow-in-Furness and Cartmel. He was Archdeacon of Furness from 1912 to 1923; and of Westmorland from 1923 to 1931.

He was a JP in Kendal from 1934 until his death on 23 March 1955.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ London Gazette
  2. ↑ ‘LAFONE, Ven. Henry Pownall Malins’, 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 23 July 2015
  3. ↑ Venn Database
  4. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p 839: London, Horace Cox, 1908
  5. ↑ Ven. H. P. M. Lafone. The Times (London, England), Saturday, Mar 26, 1955; pg. 9; Issue 53200A


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