Arthur Stone (priest) explained

Arthur Edward Stone^{[1] [2]} was Archdeacon of Calcutta^[3] from 1898 to 1902.^[4]

Stone's father and grandfather were Church of Ireland priests.^[5] He was educated at St Peter's School, York and Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained deacon in 1875 and priest in 1876. After a curacy at Moreton-in-Marsh he served with the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment at Ajmere, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Delhi, Mandalay and Darjeeling. In 1898, he was appointed a Fellow of the University of Calcutta. On his return from India he was Rector of Islip from 1902 to 1910,^{[6] [7]} then Vicar of Burcombe.^[8]

He died on 11 January 1927.^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Archived copy . 14 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151222105922/http://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/getDocument/ChTm_1902_06_13_730?fileType=PDF . 22 December 2015 . dead . dmy-all .
2. Web site: Archived copy . 14 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151222091216/http://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/getDocument/ChTm_1903_10_16_454?fileType=PDF . 22 December 2015 . dead . dmy-all .
3. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
4. Ecclesiastical Intelligenece The Times (London, England), Thursday, 12 Jun 1902; pg. 12; Issue 36792
5. http://www.spuddybike.org.uk/familyhistory/madras/priests/detail/priest_3018.html Details of MEADE NISBETT STONE
6. Ecclesiastical intelligence . 12 June 1902 . 12 . 36792.
7. https://stnicholasislip.wordpress.com/our-history/rectors-of-islip/ Parish web site
8. ‘STONE, Ven. Arthure Edward’, 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 5 Dec 2015
9. Deaths The Times (London, England), Friday, 14 January 1927; pg. 1; Issue 44479