Alfred Swann (priest)

Alfred Swann, MA, DSC was Dean and Archdeacon of Hong Kong from 1927 to 1935.[1]

He was educated at Rugby and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. After wartime service in the RNVR[2] he was ordained in 1922. Following a curacy in Kirkburton[3] he was Vicar of Liversedge before his time in Hong Kong; and held incumbencies in Wiltshire[4] and Somerset afterwards.

He died on 7 October 1961

References

  1. ↑ ‘SWANN, Rev. Canon Alfred’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 26 Aug 2014
  2. ↑ London Gazette
  3. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1959/60 p 1129:Oxford, OUP, 1959
  4. ↑ Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jan 11, 1936; pg. 15; Issue 47269
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