Ronald Sargison Explained

Ronald Ragsdale Sargison AKC (10 November 1910 – 16 October 1987) was the Dean of St George's Cathedral, Georgetown, Guyana from 1957[1] to 1961.[2]

Born in 1910, he was ordained in 1932 after a period of study at Wells Theological College and began his career with curacies at St. Catharine's Church, Nottingham, and St. Martin's Church, Sherwood. From 1942 to 1946 he was a Chaplain to the Forces. In 1947 he was appointed Priest in Charge of St. John the Evangelist, Carrington after which he was Vicar of Kneesall and then Ossington,[3] a post he held until his appointment to the Deanery of St George's Cathedral Georgetown, Guyana.[4] Returning to England he held incumbencies at Balham, Hawthorn, County Durham and (his final post) Trimdon. He died in 1987 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, aged 76.[5]

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  1. [The Times]
  2. [The Times]
  3. [Crockford's clerical directory]
  4. http://www.stgeorges.org.gy/St%20Georges%20Cathedral%20Book.pdf Diocesan History
  5. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/24985733:1904?tid=&pid=&queryId=43e6f6eddcf538df2144ea64ad8e6e53&_phsrc=OzZ14876&_phstart=successSource Probate: Ronald Ragsdale Sarginson