Richard Burne

Richard Vernon Higgins Burne FSA (19 March 1882 – 9 March 1970) was Archdeacon of Chester from 1937 to 1965.^[1]

Burne was educated at Malvern College, Keble College, Oxford and Ripon College Cuddesdon. After a curacy in Slough he became chaplain to the Charles Ferguson-Davie, the Bishop of Singapore, in 1913.^[2] During World War I he was a chaplain to the British Armed Forces. After the war he was a tutor at the Ordination Test School, Knutsford; and then its principal from 1923 until his archdeacon’s appointment.^[3]

References

1. "Burne, Ven. Richard Vernon Higgins", Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 10 Oct 2012.
2. Crockford's Clerical Directory, London OUP, 1948.
3. "New Archdeacon of Chester", The Times (London, England), 29 September 1937, p. 15.

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Preceded by Norman Henry Tubbs	Archdeacon of Chester 1937–1965	Succeeded by Leslie Gravatt Fisher