John Stocks (priest)
English archdeacon of Leicester From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Venerable John Edward Stocks, MA[1] (28 August 1843 – 29 August 1926[2]) was Archdeacon of Leicester[3] from 1899[4] to 1920.[5]
Stocks was born in Leeds,[6] educated at Christ Church, Oxford.[7] and ordained in 1867.[8] He was Chaplain at his old college from 1867 to 1871. He was Vicar of Market Harborough[9] from 1871 to 1884[10] and of St Saviour’s Church, Leicester from 1884 to 1902; Rural Dean of Gartree from 1884 to 1891 and of Leicester from 1891 to 1899. He was an Honorary Canon of Peterborough Cathedral from 1893[11] to 1899; Rector of Misterton with Walcote from 1903 to 1914; and Prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation, Canterbury from 1913 to 1918.
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