Edmund Murray (priest)

Edmund Theodore Murray (16 August 1877 – 16 February 1969^[1]) was Archdeacon of Cheltenham^[2] from 1943 to 1951.

Murray was educated at Uppingham School and Christ's College, Cambridge, and ordained^[3] after a period of study at Leeds Clergy School in 1900.^[4] He served curacies at Bedale, Wymondham^[5] and Wem.^[6] He was Rector of Bourton-on-the-Hill from 1906 to^[7] 1946; during which time he was a Chaplain to the Forces from 1917^[8] to 1919. He was appointed an Honorary Canon of Gloucester Cathedral in 1938.^[9]

References

1. Obituary. Canon Edmund Theodore Murray The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Feb 19, 1969; pg. 10; Issue 57489
2. National Archives
3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30 p926 Oxford, OUP, 1929
4. Ordinations. Ripon. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Sep 25, 1900; pg. 2; Issue 36256
5. ‘MURRAY, Reverend Canon Edmund Theodore’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 11 April 2013
6. “Shropshire Parish Register Society” Phillimore, W. P. W. Lichfield, Diocese of Lichfield, 1908
7. Caern Research
8. SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 12 APRIL, 1917
9. Ecclesiastical News The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Dec 27, 1938; pg. 11; Issue 48187

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Preceded by Frederick William Sears	Archdeacon of Cheltenham 1943–1951	Succeeded by Ronald Huntley Sutch