Cyril Twitchett
Cyril Frederick Twitchett (1890 – 3 September 1950) was an Anglican archdeacon[1] and an Honorary Chaplain to the King[2] in the second quarter of the Twentieth century.[3]
Twitchett was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He was educated at King's College London and ordained in 1913.[4] He served curacies at St Benet Fink, Tottenham; St Hilda's Thurnscoe and St Paul's Sheffield. From 1920 to 1924 he was clerical secretary of the Life and Liberty Movement, then a bishop's messenger at Liverpool Cathedral from 1925 to 1931 when he became a residentiary canon of the cathedral.[5]
He was Archdeacon of Warrington from 1933 to 1934; and then Archdeacon of Liverpool until his death in Liverpool on 3 September 1950.[6]
Notes
[edit]- ↑ The London Gazette
- ↑ "Chaplains To The King", The Times (London, England), 26 July 1939, p. 8.
- ↑ National Archives
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
- ↑ "Twichett, Ven. Cyril Frederick", 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 1 June 2015
- ↑ "The Archdeacon Of Liverpool", The Times (London, England), 5 September 1950, p. 8.