William Sherwen was Archdeacon of Westmorland from 1901 until his death on 1 March 1915.[1]

He was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford;[2] and was ordained in 1860. He served curacies in Cold Brayfield, Bishopwearmouth, Sedgefield and Dean.[3] He was Rural Dean of Cockermouth and Workington from 1882 to 1901.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Deaths.". The Times. No. 40792. London, England. 3 March 1915. p. 1.
  2. ↑ "Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886" Vol 4 Foster,J (Ed) p 1288: Oxford and London: Parker and Co., 1888-1891
  3. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 pp1294/5: London, Horace Cox, 1908
  4. ↑ ‘SHERWEN, Ven. William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 23 July 2015


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