John Blakeney (priest)
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Memorial in Sheffield Cathedral
John Edward Blakeney (7 December 1824 – 12 January 1895)[1] was an Anglican priest in the 19th century.[2]
He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin[3] and ordained in 1849.[4] After a curacy at Christ Church Claughton[5] he became Vicar of St Paul, Sheffield in 1860.[6] He was Archdeacon of Sheffield from 1884 until[7] his death.
Family[]
His only daughter, Martha Susan Blakeney, married in 1880 Samuel Roberts, later Lord Mayor of Sheffield, MP for Sheffield, and created a Baronet.
References[]
- ^ thePeerage.dom
- ^ Fifty Years of Sheffield Church Life 1866-1916
- ^ "Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860). George Dames Burtchaell / Thomas Ulick Sadleir p. 73: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
- ^ Daily News (London, England), Wednesday, March 7, 1849; Issue 867 Ordinations Diocese of Ripon
- ^ Church website
- ^ The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent. Supplement. (Sheffield, England), Saturday, April 21, 1860; pg. 6; Issue 2113. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.
- ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
Categories:
- 1824 births
- Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
- 19th-century Irish Anglican priests
- Archdeacons of Sheffield
- 1895 deaths