Rex Howe

The Very Rev Rex Alan Howe, MA was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the twentieth century.

He was born in 1929 and after National Service with the Army Catering Corps[1] studied at Christ's College Cambridge. He then attended the College of the Resurrection Mirfield and was ordained in 1956.[2] After curacies[3] in Barnsley and Helmsley he held incumbencies in Middlesbrough, Redcar and Kirkleatham. He was Rural Dean of Guisborough from 1967 to 1973. In 1973 he became Dean of Hong Kong; and its Archdeacon in 1975. Later he was Rector of Grantham,[4] and a Canon Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral before his final post as Vicar of Canford Cliffs and Sandbanks. He retired in 1994.

References

  1. ↑ London Gazette
  2. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 978-0-19-200008-8
  3. ↑ North Yorks Archives
  4. ↑ Church Web Site


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