John Cawston Explained

John Cawston (1824– 3 March 1900) was a Church of England priest and Royal Navy chaplain. He was Chaplain of the Fleet,^[1] serving from 1876^[2] to 1882.^[3]

Cawston was the only son of Rev. A. W. Cawston, and was educated at St David's College, Lampeter. He was ordained deacon in 1847 and priest in 1848. After curacies at St Paul, Newport, Wales and St. Michael and All Angels, Great Torrington he began his long association with the Royal Navy in 1853. He served in Crimea and Turkey, where he was on board HMS Bellerophon during the bombardment of Sevastopol in 1854–55. Following time in Mexico, he served on for an expedition in the Baltic, and later served in the West Indies before his time as head of the service. He was an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen.

He died at his home in Blackheath Park on 3 March 1900.^{[4] [5]} His son, also John Cawston,^[6] was Comptroller of the Royal Mint from 1917 to 1921.^[7]

Notes and References

1. 'Multiple News Items' The Morning Post (London, England), Wednesday, November 01, 1876; Issue 32556. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800–1900
2. 'NAVAL PROMOTION APPOINTMENTS, AND RETIREMENT' Hampshire Telegraph (Portsmouth, England), Saturday, July 29, 1876; Issue 4586
3. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
4. Deaths Leicester Chronicle (Leicester, England), Saturday, March 10, 1900; pg. 3; Issue 4659. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800–1900
5. Obituary – Rev. John Cawston. 7 March 1900 . 6 . 36083.
6. Sir John Cawston The Times (London, England), Saturday, Apr 23, 1927; pg. 12; Issue 44563
7. ‘CAWSTON, Sir John Westerman’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 27 May 2017