Geoffrey Gower-Jones(30 April 1910 – 5 November 1982) was Archdeacon of Lancaster from 1966 to 1980.

He was born into an ecclesiastical family[1] educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and ordained in 1934.[2] After curacies in Royton and Prestwich he became Vicar of Belfield in 1943; and then of St Stephen-on-the-Cliffs, Blackpool[3] before his archdeacon’s appointment.

References

  1. ↑ His father was theRev William Gower-Jones, sometime Vicar of Wingates > ‘GOWER-JONES, Ven. Geoffrey’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 12 June 2013
  2. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  3. ↑ Church web site


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