Sidney Austerberry Explained

The Ven. Sidney Denham Austerberry (28 October 1908 - 22 March 1996) was Archdeacon of Salop^[1] from 1959 ^[2] to 1979.

Austerberry was educated at Hanley High School and Egerton Hall, Manchester. He was ordained deacon in 1931 and priest in 1933.^[3] After a curacy in Newcastle-under-Lyme, he held incumbencies in Shrewsbury, Brewood and Great Ness. He was Rural Dean of Penkridge from 1958 to 1959; and an Honorary Canon of Lichfield Cathedral from 1968 to 1979.^[4]

Notes and References

1. http://search.shropshirehistory.org.uk/collections/getrecord/CCA_XP316_B_4_3_15/ Shropshire History
2. Two New Archdeacons. The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jul 04, 1959; pg. 8; Issue 54504
3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976
4. ‘AUSTERBERRY, Ven. Sidney Denham’, 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 8 May 2016