Basil Snell
The Ven. Basil Clark Snell (2 February 1907 – 12 June 1986)[1] was an eminent Anglican priest in the mid twentieth century.[2]
Snell was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Queens' College, Cambridge.[3] He was ordained in 1933[4] and began his career with a curacy at St Kentigern's, Crosthwaite.[5] After this he was Chaplain of Aldenham School and then Loretto School. During the war he was a Chaplain to the British Armed Forces.[6] He was Rector of Tattingstone from 1947 to 1955 when he became a Residentiary Canon of St Edmundsbury Cathedral. He was Archdeacon of Bedford from 1958 until 1962[7] and of St Albans from then to 1973.
References
[edit]- ↑ The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 17 June 1986; p. 18; Issue 62485. "Obituary – The Ven. B.C. Snell".
- ↑ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
- ↑ Who was Who 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
- ↑ ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689–2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
- ↑ London Gazette
- ↑ Diocesan web site Archived 28 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine