Charles Johnston (priest)

Charles Francis Harding Johnston (b Barnstaple, 6 October 1842 -d Warrington 22 August 1925)[1] was Archdeacon of Bombay from 1888 until 1890.[2]

Johnston was educated at Barnstaple Grammar School and Christ's College, Cambridge; and ordained in 1867.[3] His first post after Graduation was with the Inland Revenue after which he was a master at Trinity College, Glenalmond from 1867 to 1868. Moving to India he was Chaplain of HEICS and Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Bombay before his time as Archdeacon[4] and Vicar of Headington Quarry[5] afterwards.[6]

References
  1. Deaths. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Aug 25, 1925; pg. 1
  2. ‘JOHNSTON, Ven. Charles Francis Harding’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 1 March 2015
  3. GENERAL ORDINATIONS. Morning Post (London, England), Monday, December 23, 1867; pg. 3; Issue 29339
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory1908 p 776 London, Herbert Cox,1908
  5. 'ECCLESIASTICAL NEWS' Yorkshire Herald (York, England), Friday, November 27, 1891; pg. 6; Issue 12631
  6. Headington History


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