Hugh Back

Hugh Cairns Alexander Back (20 August 1863 – 27 December 1928) was Archdeacon of Warwick[1] from 1923 until his death.[2]

Back was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge[3] and ordained Deacon in 1887; and Priest in 1888.[4] His began his career with curacies at Ulverston and Kidderminster. He was Rector of Brandiston from 1892 to 1897; Vicar of Rostherne from 1897 to 1903; Rector of Berkswell from 1903 to[5] 1924; and Rector of Hampton Lucy from 1924 until his death.[6]

References

1. "Visitation of England and Wales" Jackson,H.J;Crisp,F.A: London, College of Arms, 1893
2. Obituary: The Archdeacon Of Warwick. The Times (London, England), Friday, 28 December 1928; pg. 17; Issue 45086
3. Venn, John & Venn, John Archibald. 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, Cambridge University Press Part II vol. ii p108
4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898: London, Horace Cox, 1898 p 51
5. Solihull Life
6. ‘BACK, Ven. Hugh Cairns Alexander’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 17 January 2017

Church of England titles
Preceded by Claude Blagden	Archdeacon of Warwick 1983–1990	Succeeded by Herbert St Barbe Holland