Francis Partridge Explained

Francis Partridge (b Dursley, Gloucestershire, England 1846 – d Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada 1906) was an Anglican priest in Canada^[1] during the last decades of the Nineteenth century and the first of the 20th.^[2]

Educated at Katharine Lady Berkeley's School^[3] and St Augustine's College, Canterbury he emigrated to Canada in 1868 and became Headmaster of the Grammar School at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, a post he held until 1872. He was Rector of Rothesay, New Brunswick from then until 1879 when he was appointed a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton. He was Rector of St George's, Halifax, Nova Scotia from 1881 until 1895,^[4] also holding the position of Lecturer in Apologetics at the University of King's College beginning in 1886. In 1895^[5] he became the first Dean of Fredericton;^[6] and died in post on 18 April 1906.^[7]

Notes and References

1. http://www.parishofcambridgeandwaterborough.com/churches/church-of-the-good-shepard Anglican Parish of Cambridge & Waterborough
2. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
3. ‘PARTRIDGE, Very Rev. Francis’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 15 Nov 2014
4. Pacey, Elizabeth. Miracle on Brunswick Street. Halifax, NS: Nimbus Publishing Ltd., (2003) p.107
5. The Guardian announces the following preferments The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jan 31, 1895; pg. 11; Issue 34488
6. Web site: Heritage Fredericton . 15 November 2014 . 3 November 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141103200837/http://heritagefredericton.org/node/134 . dead .
7. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=37&dat=19060418&id=jkBLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vikDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1745,2907322 Daily Sun 18 April 1906