| Honorific Prefix: | The Reverend |
| Gresham Kirkby | |
| Birth Name: | Reginald Gresham Kirkby |
| Birth Date: | 11 August 1916 |
| Birth Place: | Cornwall, England |
| Religion: | Christianity (Anglican) |
| Church: | Church of England |
| Congregations: | St Paul's, Bow Common |
Reginald Gresham Kirkby (1916–2006) was an English Anglican priest and anarchist socialist.
Kirkby was born in Cornwall on 11 August 1916.[1] His mother and aunt were Methodist, but he was inclined towards Anglo-Catholicism from an early age.[2] Kirby graduated from the University of Leeds and studied at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, West Yorkshire, where he became friends with Trevor Huddleston, in the 1940s.[1] [3] He was ordained in Manchester[4] as a deacon in 1942 and as a priest in 1943[1] and served as vicar of St Paul's, Bow Common, London, from July 1951 to July 1994.
Kirby was an anarchist socialist (or anarcho-communist), an early supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and a member of the Committee of 100.[1] He was influenced by Peter Kropotkin and Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.[1]
Kirkby died on 10 August 2006.[1]