Robert Streatfeild (priest)
Robert Cornthwaite Streatfeild[1] (1894 - 1976) was Dean of Nassau from 1934 until[2] 1943.[3]
Robert Cornthwaite Streatfeild was born on 17 October 1894 at Streatham, Surrey.[4] His father, Rev George Sidney Streatfeild (1844-1921) was vicar of Christ Church, Hampstead. Robert was educated at St Andrews College, Bradfield, Reading, Queens' College, Cambridge and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. During World War One he served with the Machine Gun Corps.[5]
Robert Streatfeild was ordained in 1926. After a curacy in Peckham he was Chaplain to the Bishop of Southwark. He was Vicar general of the Diocese of Nassau from 1936 to 1943; and Vicar of Leamington[6] on his return from the Caribbean.
He married Gisella Ruth Luttman in October 1938.[7] He retired to Mendip, Somerset where he died in July 1976.[8]
References
- ↑ World Cat
- ↑ The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Aug 03, 1938; pg. 13; Issue 48063
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1948 p1263 Oxford, OUP, 1948
- ↑ England & Wales BMD indices, birth, Wandsworth, London, Oct-Dec 1894, vol 1d 310.
- ↑ London Gazette
- ↑ Google Books
- ↑ England & Wales Marriages, , marriage Sevenoaks, Kent, Oct-Dec 1938, vol 2a 2573.
- ↑ England & Wales Death Index 1916-2005 , death, age 81, Mendip Somerset, Jul-Sep 1976, vol 23 1078.