William Donne (priest) explained

William Donne (29 October 1845 – 5 March 1914)^[1] was Archdeacon of Huddersfield from 1892^[2] to 1913.

Baines was born into an ecclesiastical family^[3] in Oswestry; educated at Wellington College and Brasenose College, Oxford; and ordained in 1876.

He was the Curate in charge of the Winchester College Mission from 1876 to 1881; and then held incumbencies at Limehouse, Great Yarmouth and Wakefield. He was an Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria and then King Edward VII.

Notes and References

1. Canon's Death At Sea The Times (London, England), Monday, 9 March 1914; p. 5; Issue 40466
2. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
3. His father was The Rev. Stephen Donne > ‘DONNE, Ven. William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 3 December 2014