Eric Evans (Archdeacon of Warrington)

Eric Herbert Evans (31 January 1902 – 25 December 1977) was the Archdeacon of Warrington from 1959[1] to 1970.

Life

Evans was educated at Liverpool Institute and Bishop Wilson Theological College, Isle of Man. He was ordained in 1930.[2] After curacies in Liverpool and Southport, he was Chaplain at the Liverpool branch of the Mission to Seamen. He was vicar of Crossens, and then, during World War II, a Chaplain in the Royal Navy Reserve.[3] He was vicar of Southport from 1946 to 1948; and then of Meols until his retirement.[4]

Notes
  1. News in Brief. The Times (London, England), 5 December 1958; p. 6; Issue 54326
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1948 p 305: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1948
  3. "Navy list, December 1943, Volume 2". National Library of Scotland. p. 16. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  4. ‘EVANS, Ven. Eric Herbert’, 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 2 August 2015


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