Robert Devenish (Archdeacon of Lahore)

The Venerable Robert Cecil Sylvester Devenish (22 November 1888 23 August 1973) was Archdeacon of Lahore from 1934 to 1940.[1]

He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1913.[2] He was a Chaplain to the Forces from 1915 to 1919 and then a Chaplain with the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment. He was Rector of St Paul’s Naval and Garrison Church, Esquimalt from 1941 to 1946; Chaplain of Upper Chine School from 1946 to 1951 and Assistant Priest of St Mary Abbots, Kensington from 1951 to 1959.

Notes

  1. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947-48 p352: Oxford, OUP, 1947
  2. ‘DEVENISH, Rev. Robert Cecil Silvester’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 19 April 2014
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Henry Craven Carden
Archdeacon of Lahore
1934–1940
Succeeded by
Mervyn Saxelbye Evers
gollark: I think this is because Yemmelemmmy was the one who actually developed the plugins and wrote the insane bash code, and they're gone.
gollark: It doesn't do discord → server any more.
gollark: I mean, the chat bridge is broken, and it went down a fair amount and lost most players.
gollark: Not much offense, but I thought SC was basically dead.
gollark: People *play* on that?
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.