Frank Ford (priest) explained

Frank Edward Ford (9 July 1902 – 26 November 1976) was the Archdeacon of the East Riding from 1957 to 1970.

Ford was educated at Lancing College and Hertford College, Oxford.[1] He was ordained after a period of study at Westcott House, Cambridge and ordained in 1928.[2] After a curacy at St Chrysotom Victoria Park, Manchester[3] he worked for Toc H in various capacities from 1929 to 1940. He held incumbencies at St John Newland and St Thomas, Scarborough before his Archdeacon’s appointment; and Bainton afterwards.

Notes and References

  1. ‘FORD, Ven. Frank Edward’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, November 2012 accessed 26 August 2013
  2. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
  3. http://www.stchrysostoms.co.uk/ Church Web Site