Henry Carden

The Ven Henry Craven Carden (23 December 1882[1] – 30 October 1964[2]) was Archdeacon of Lahore from 1929 to[3] 1934.

Born into an aristocratic family, he was educated at Hatfield College, Durham and ordained in 1907.[4] He was Curate at St Peter with St Owen, Hereford[5] then St Mary, Ross-on-Wye.[6] He was Chaplain at Lahore Cathedral until war broke out when he became a Chaplain with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. When peace returned he served the church in the North Western Frontier Province at Peshawar, Abbottabad and Hazara before his appointment as Archdeacon; and at Kilmeston in Hampshire afterwards.

Notes

1. thePeerage.com
2. Deaths. The Times (London, England), Monday, Nov 02, 1964; pg. 1; Issue 56158
3. Points from Letters The Times (London, England), Monday, May 30, 1932; pg. 8; Issue 46146
4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947-48 p202: Oxford, OUP, 1947
5. Church details
6. Geograph

Church of England titles
Preceded by Hugh Trevor Wheeler	Archdeacon of Lahore 1929–1934	Succeeded by Robert Cecil Sylvester Devenish