Henry Lafone Explained

Henry Pownall Malins Lafone^[1] (1867 - 1955) was an Anglican Archdeacon in the first half of the Twentieth century.^[2]

He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge^[3] and Wells Theological College; and ordained in 1890.^[4] After a curacy at St Mary's Church, Portsea he held incumbencies in Ambleside, Carlisle, Kendal, Barrow-in-Furness and Cartmel. He was Archdeacon of Furness from 1912 to 1923; and of Westmorland from 1923 to 1931.

He was a JP in Kendal from 1934 until his death on 23 March 1955.^[5]

Notes

1. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33044/page/3011/data.pdf London Gazette
2. ‘LAFONE, Ven. Henry Pownall Malins’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 23 July 2015
3. http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2015.pl?sur=Lafone&suro=w&fir=Henry&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=&sye=1860&eye=1900&col=all&maxcount=50 Venn Database
4. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
5. Ven. H. P. M. Lafone. The Times (London, England), Saturday, Mar 26, 1955; pg. 9; Issue 53200A