George Anson (priest) explained

George Henry Greville Anson (20 February 1820, in Marylebone  - 9 February 1898, in Winchester^[1]) was a clergyman and member of the Anson family. He was Rector of St James's, Birch-in-Rusholme and served as Archdeacon of Manchester from 30 May^[2] 1870^[3] to 1890.^[4]

The son of Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet,^[5] he was educated at Eton College^[6] and Exeter College, Oxford^[7] and ordained in 1843.^[8] After a curacy at Leeds Parish Church^[9] he was, for many years, the incumbent at St James,^[10] Rusholme,^[11] retiring from the posts of Rector, and Archdeacon of Manchester, in 1890.^[4]

He married Augusta Agnes Hook on 27 June 1848.^[12]

Notes and References

1. Deaths The Times (London, England), Thursday, Feb 10, 1898; pg. 1; Issue 35436
2. http://www.mancuniensis.info/Chronology/Chronology1870FPX.htm Mancuniensis
3. http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/23615/pages/2539/page.pdf National Archives
4. The New Archdeacon of Manchester . Manchester Faces and Places . 10 October 1890 . II . 1 . 1.
5. Burke's Peerage 2003, page 110
6. ‘ANSON, Ven. George Henry Greville’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 24 June 2013
7. ‘UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE’ The Standard (London, England), Friday, January 27, 1843; Issue 5789
8. ‘ORDINATIONS’ The Morning Post (London, England), Friday, December 22, 1843; Issue 22758
9. http://rusholmearchive.org/a-quiet-part-of-the-countryside Rusholme Archive
10. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41429 British History On-line
11. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=127-m315&cid=2-3-5#2-3-5 National Archives
12. ‘Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries The Bradford Observer; and Halifax, Huddersfield, and Keighley Reporter (Bradford, England), Thursday, July 06, 1848; pg. 5; Issue 735’