Thomas Sale (priest) explained

Thomas Rawlinson Sale [1] (1 April 1865 – 25 October 1939) was Archdeacon of Rochdale from 1919 to 1935.[2]

Sale was educated at Marlborough and New College, Oxford and ordained in 1890.[3] After a curacy in Rochdale he was Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Manchester.[4] In 1897 he married Katharine Sophia Bradshaw:[5] they had sons and two daughters.[6] He held incumbencies at Leesfield, Crumpsall, Huddersfield and Blackburn[7] before his appointment as Archdeacon.[8]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28273/page/5628/data.pdf London Gazette
  2. The Ven. T. R. Sale. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 26 October 1939; pg. 10; Issue 48446.
  3. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE Liverpool Mercury (Liverpool, England), Monday, 22 December 1890; Issue 13403
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929–30 p1132 London: Oxford University Press, 1929
  5. Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries The Morning Post (London, England), Friday, 5 November 1897; Issue 39131
  6. 'SALE, Ven. Thomas Rawlinson', 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 30 Aug 2017
  7. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp235-244 British history on-line
  8. Church appointments The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 25 March 1919; pg. 9; Issue 42057