Honorific-Prefix: | The Venerable |
Frederick Ackerley | |
Honorific-Suffix: | FRSA |
Order: | Archdeacon of Bradford |
Term Start: | 1932 |
Term End: | 1934 |
Order2: | Archdeacon of Craven |
Term Start2: | 1934 |
Term End2: | 1949 |
Birth Date: | 12 November 1871 |
Death Date: | 21 October 1954 |
Spouse: | 1902 Vera Mary née Hill (d 1947) 1949 Phyllis née Ray |
Frederick George Ackerley (1871–1954) was an Anglican priest in the Church of England,[1] at different times the Archdeacon of Bradford then Craven.[2] He was also an acknowledged scholar of Romany language and culture.[3]
Ackerley was educated at Rossall School and Jesus College, Oxford[4] and ordained in 1898. He served curacies in Keighley,[5] Eccles, and Washington and incumbencies at Grindleton, Great Mitton and Carleton-in-Craven. Later he was Rural Dean of Bolland before his years as an Archdeacon.