// Workers AI · dad joke modeWho's Christopher Spafford? Staff ordained?
Christopher Garnett Howsin Spafford (1924–2011) was Provost of Newcastle from 1976[1] to 1989.
Spafford was born into an ecclesiastical family[2] on 10 September 1924, educated at Marlborough College and St John's College, Oxford and ordained in 1950.[3] After curacies at Brighouse and Huddersfield he held incumbencies at Hebden Bridge, Thornhill and Shrewsbury.[4] He was Provost of Newcastle Cathedral from 1976 to 1989.[5]
Spafford died in September 2011.[6]
References
[edit]- ↑ Newcastle Libraries Archived 2011-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ His father was the Rev. Canon Douglas Norman Spafford, sometime Vicar of Walton-on-the-Hill > Crockford's Clerical Directory 1948 Oxford, OUP, 1947
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
- ↑ Who's Who 1996 London A & C Black, 1995 ISBN 0-7136-4255-6]
- ↑ ancestral-indexes
- ↑ "notice of a memorial evensong". Church Times. No. 7747. 9 September 2011. p. 29. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 1 January 2025 – via UK Press Online archives.