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Ken Gibbons

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Kenneth Harry Gibbons (24 December 1931 – 1 August 2024) was an English Anglican clergyman who was the Archdeacon of Lancaster from 1981 to 1997.[1]

Biography

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Born on 24 December 1931, Gibbons was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School, the University of Manchester and Ripon College Cuddesdon. After National Service he was ordained in 1956. After a curacy in Fleetwood he was Schools Secretary of the Student Christian Movement from 1960 to 1962. He was Senior Curate of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster and held incumbencies in New Addington and Portsea, Portsmouth before his Archdeacon’s appointment;[2] and St Michael's on Wyre afterwards.[3]

Gibbons died on 1 August 2024, at the age of 92.[4]

References

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  1. ^ ‘GIBBONS, Ven. Kenneth Harry’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 16 June 2013
  2. ^ Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
  3. ^ List of incumbents
  4. ^ "Deaths". Church Times. 9 August 2024. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
Church of England titles
Preceded by Archdeacon of Lancaster
1981–1997
Succeeded by

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