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Hugh Ross Norton OBE (born Marylebone, 3 April 1890 – died Bury St Edmunds, 10 January 1969) was Archdeacon of Sudbury[1] from 1945 to 1962.
Norton was educated at Monkton Combe School and Wadham College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1914 [2] and served curacies in Whitechapel, Stepney and Tottenham;[3] also acting as a wartime Chaplain to the Forces in the Middle East. He was Precentor of Wakefield Cathedral from 1921 to 1924; and again a Chaplain to the Forces from 1924 until 1945[4] when he took up his Archdeacon’s appointment. He was Rector of Horringer from 1945 to 1958; and then a Canon Residentiary of St Edmundsbury Cathedral from 1958 until 1964: there is a memorial to him in the cathedral. He was Archdeacon Emeritus of Sudbury from 1962 until his death.
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