Travers Guy Rogers

Travers Guy Rogers MC (1876–1967) was an author and priest in the Church of England who became a chaplain to King George V in 1918.[1]

Career

He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was awarded BA in 1898 and BD in 1901. In 1899 he received the Term Composition Prize from the Divinity School.[2]

He was ordained a deacon in 1900 and priest in 1901.

He was made a temporary chaplain to the forces on 12 October 1915[3] and served as Chaplain to the 2nd Guards Brigade. He described the harrowing ordeal of preparing a deserter for his execution after his trial in 1916 in letters written home to his family.[4] He was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry in 1916.[5] He relinquished this commission on 1 January 1917.[6]

He was appointed a Chaplain to the King in 1918.[7]

He was appointed:

Publications

  • The Inner Life. Essays in Liberal Evangelicalism (1925)
  • The Church and the People, Sampson Low, Marston and Co. (1931)
  • The return to God: an Anglican View (1933)
  • A Rebel at Heart: The Autobiography of a Nonconforming Churchman, Longmans Green and Co. (1956)
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Edward Grose-Hodge
Rector of St Martin in the Bull Ring
1924–1948
Succeeded by
Bryan Green

Notes

  1. "No. 30613". The London Gazette. 5 April 1918. p. 4133.
  2. "University Intelligence". Belfast News-Letter. Belfast. 23 June 1899. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  3. "No. 29339". The London Gazette. 25 October 1915. p. 10494.
  4. Shot at Dawn. Julian Putkowski and Julian Sykes. Casemate Publishers. 1990. p.84 ISBN 147381815X
  5. "No. 29824". The London Gazette. 14 November 1916. p. 11065.
  6. "No. 29923". The London Gazette. 29 January 1917. p. 1043.
  7. "No. 30613". The London Gazette. 5 April 1918. p. 4133.
  8. The Times, 20 October 1915, p. 3.
  9. "No. 29822". The London Gazette. 14 November 1916. p. 10963.
  10. "New Rector of Birmingham". Gloucestershire Echo. Dundee. 2 December 1924. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
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