John Lush (priest)
John Arthur Lush (11 November 1881[1] – 8 September 1964[2]) was Archdeacon of Southland from 1933 until 1962.[3]
Lush was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge and ordained deacon in 1906 and priest in 1907. After curacies in West Hartlepool and Bishopwearmouth he was a Chaplain to the New Zealand Armed Forces from 1916[4] to 1918. He was Vicar of Havelock from 1911 to 1921 and then of St John, Invercargill until his appointment as Archdeacon.[5]
References[]
- ^ Cricket Archive
- ^ Auckland Museum
- ^ Notes to Charles Spear Collected Poems, edited and with an afterword by Peter Simpson with images by Tony Lane University of Auckland, Holloway Press, 2007 ISBN 0958231370
- ^ The Evening Post (New Zealand), Volume XCI, Issue 122, 24 May 1916, Page 5
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1959/60 p 727: Oxford, OUP, 1959
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- Archdeacons of Southland
- Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge
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