Ken Gibbons Explained

Kenneth Harry Gibbons (born 24 December 1931) was Archdeacon of Lancaster from 1981 to 1997.[1]

Gibbons was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School, the University of Manchester and Ripon College Cuddesdon. After National Service he was ordained in 1956. After a curacy in Fleetwood he was Schools Secretary of the Student Christian Movement from 1960 to 1962. He was Senior Curate of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster and held incumbencies in New Addington and Portsea, Portsmouth before his Archdeacon’s appointment;[2] and St Michael's on Wyre afterwards.[3]

Notes and References

  1. ‘GIBBONS, Ven. Kenneth Harry’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 16 June 2013
  2. [Crockford's clerical directory|Crockfords]
  3. http://jol-datastore.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/st-michael-on-wyre-church-interior.html List of incumbents