Charles Stranks Explained

Charles James Stranks (10 May 1901 – 30 August 1981)^[1] was a British Anglican priest^[2] and author.^[3]

Stranks was born in Buckinghamshire,^[4] educated at Durham University^[5] and St Boniface College, Warminster; and ordained in 1926. After a curacy in Leeds he was a missionary in Japan from 1928 to 1940. He was the Vicar of Morecambe from 1941 to 1947; Warden of Whalley Abbey from 1947^[6] from 1947 to 1953; a Canon at Durham University from 1954; and Archdeacon of Auckland from 1958 to 1973.^[7]

Notes and References

1. The Venerable C. J. Stranks. The Times (London, England), Saturday, 5 September 1981; pg. 10; Issue 61025
2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76 p 307:London, OUP, 1976
3. Amongst others he wrote The Apostle of the Indies, 1933; Japan in the World Crisis, 1941; The Approach to Belief, 1947; Our Task To-day, 1950; The Life and Writings of Jeremy Taylor, 1952; Dean Hook, 1954; Anglican Devotion, 1961; Country Boy: The Autobiography of Richard Hillyer, 1966; The Path of Glory: The Autobiography of John Shipp, 1969; and This Sumptuous Church: the story of Durham Cathedral, 1973 > British Library web site accessed 16:47 GMT Sunday 4 June 2017
4. http://little-corner-of-the-earth.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/country-boy.html LCOTE
5. Web site: Durham University Calendar 1936-7. reed.dur.ac.uk. 14 March 2018. en.
6. Ecclesiastical News The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 6 May 1947; pg. 7; Issue 50753
7. ‘STRANKS, Ven. Charles James’, 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 4 June 2017