Basil Stratton

The Ven. Basil Stratton (7 April 1906 - 9 May 2000)[1] was Archdeacon of Lichfield and Canon Treasurer of Lichfield Cathedral from 1959 to 1974.[2]

Ninis was educated at Lincoln School and Durham University. He was ordained deacon in 1930; and priest in 1931.[3] After a curacy at St Stephen, Grimsby he was an SPG Missionary in India from 1932 to 1934;[4]and with the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment from 1935 to 1941.[5] He was a Chaplain to the British Armed Forces from 1941 to 1947. In 1948 he became Vicar of Figheldean; and in 1953 of Market Drayton. he was also an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen from 1965 to 1976.[6]

Notes

  1. His wife Fay died aged 98 in 2005 > Deaths. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, August 02, 2005; pg. 44; Issue 68455.
  2. Lives in Brief. The Times (London, England), Monday, June 26, 2000
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  4. ‘STRATTON, Ven. Basil’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 7 May 2016
  5. Telegraph obituary
  6. London Gazette


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