Okes Parish Explained

William Okes Parish (26 June 1859 – 7 April 1940) was an Anglican cleric who was Archdeacon of Dorset from 1929 to 1936.[1]

Parish was born in Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire,[2] into an ecclesiastical family, the elder son of The Reverend William Samuel Parish, MA, Fellow of Peterhouse[3] He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge[4] and ordained in 1884.[5] He was Vicar of Longfleet from 1886[6] to[7] 1929; Rural Dean of Poole from 1893[8] to 1929; and a Canon Residentiary of Salisbury Cathedral from 1929 to 1936.[9] He was also a Chaplain to the Dorset Regiment.[10]

He died on 7 April 1940.[11]

Notes and References

  1. "Obituaries." Crockford's Clerical Directory 1940-41 Oxford, OUP, 1941
  2. 1911 England Census
  3. ‘PARISH, Ven. William Okes’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 23 Nov 2012
  4. "University Intelligence MA awards" (Cambridge) The Times (London, England), Friday, May 29, 1885; pg. 7; Issue 31459
  5. "Ordinations (Lincoln)" Nottinghamshire Guardian (London, England), Friday, June 13, 1884; pg. 5; Issue 2038
  6. "Ecclesiastical Appointments." The Times (London, England), Friday, Jan 29, 1886; pg. 11; Issue 31669.
  7. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=190-d_2-1_3&cid=1-1-6-1-6#1-1-6-1-6 National Archives
  8. "Ecclesiastical Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jun 22, 1893; pg. 9; Issue 33984
  9. "Canon W.O. Parish." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Apr 09, 1940; pg. 10; Issue 48585
  10. http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28273/pages/5627/page.pdf London Gazette July 23rd 1909
  11. "Deaths." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, April 9, 1940; pg. 1; Issue 48585

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