Christopher Spafford Explained

Christopher Garnett Howsin Spafford (1924-2011) was Provost of Newcastle from 1976^[1] to 1989.

Spafford was born into an ecclesiastical family^[2] on 10 September 1924, educated at Marlborough College and St John's College, Oxford and ordained in 1950.^[3] After curacies at Brighouse and Huddersfield he held incumbencies at Hebden Bridge, Thornhill and Shrewsbury.^[4] He was Provost of Newcastle Cathedral from 1976 to 1989.^[5]

Reverend Christopher Spafford died in September 2011.^[6]

Notes and References

1. http://library.newcastle.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_005_TitleInformation.aspx?searchTerm=L283.2+N536&searchTerm2=&searchTerm3=&searchTerm4=&searchType=4&Page=2&media=&branch=&authority=&language=&junior=&rcn=N000147687&fr=tl Newcastle Libraries
2. His father was the Rev. Canon Douglas Norman Spafford, sometime Vicar of Walton-on-the-Hill > Crockford's Clerical Directory 1948 Oxford, OUP, 1947
3. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
4. [Who's Who]
5. http://www.ancestral-indexes.co.uk/misc/NBL/NTC/NTC-NSN.htm ancestral-indexes
6. Web site: St Chad' s, Shrewsbury. www.ukpressonline.co.uk/. ukpressonline. 20 January 2015.