Francis Flack

Francis Walter Flack (b Cambridge[1] 22 May 1859; d Uitenhage 25 June 1933)[2] was an Anglican priest in the last two decades of the nineteenth century[3] and the first three of the Twentieth, most notably Archdeacon of Port Elizabeth from 1919[4] until his death.[5]

Edwardes was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.[6] He was ordained deacon in 1883,[7] and priest in 1884. After a curacy in Shildon he went out to South Africa.He served at Port Alfred, Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage.[8]

References
  1. St Catherine's Society Magazine
  2. Geni
  3. 'Church News' The Newcastle Courant etc (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England), Friday, 28 December 1883; Issue 10903
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929 p440 London, OUP, 1948
  5. The Ven. F. W. Flack. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 29 June 1933; pg. 19; Issue 46483
  6. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. ii. Chalmers – Fytche, (1944.) p516
  7. Durham University Library Special Collections Catalogue
  8. St Katherine, UItenhage


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