Lawrence Ashcroft

Lawrence Ashcroft (1901 - 1996) was the Archdeacon of Stow from 1954^[1] to 1962.

Ashcroft was educated at Durham University and Lichfield Theological College; and ordained in 1927. After curacies in Ulverston and Egremont he was Secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. He was Vicar of St Saviour, Retford from 1934 to 1940; a Chaplain to the Forces from 1940 to 1943; and Rector of St Michael, Stoke, Coventry from 1943 to 1953.^[2]

He died on 18 May 1996.^[3]

Notes[]

^ Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 4 February 1954; pg. 8; Issue 52847
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1959-60 London: Oxford University Press, 1929
^ ‘ASHCROFT, Ven. Lawrence’, 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 5 May 2017

Church of England titles
Preceded by Mervyn Armstrong	Archdeacon of Stow 1954 – 1962	Succeeded by Michael Roy Sinker

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v t Archdeacons of Stow, of Lindsey and of Stow and Lindsey
High Medieval (Stow)	William de Thornaco
Late Medieval (Stow)	Adam de Brome John Islip Simon Islip Henry Chaddesden Thomas Brunce William Lyndwood Lawrence Booth Edmund Booth William Witham
Early modern (Stow)	Anthony Draycot Christopher Massingberd John Aylmer John Aylmer (again) Roger Kelke Thomas Sparke John Hills James Duport Byrom Eaton John Gery John Hutton Laurence Echard John Towne Robert Wharton Cayley Illingworth Henry Bayley William Stonehouse
Late modern (Stow)	John Giles Edward Trollope (Bishop of Nottingham) George Perry John Bond George Jeudwine John Wakeford Ernest Blackie (Bishop of Grantham then of Grimsby) Arthur Greaves, Bishop of Grimsby Mervyn Armstrong Lawrence Ashcroft Michael Roy Sinker Sidney Harvie-Clark David Scott Roderick Wells (became Archdeacon of Stow and Lindsey)
of Lindsey	archdeaconry split from that of Stow Herbert Parry Nathaniel Railton Lisle Marsden Clifford Jarvis Bill Dudman Christopher Laurence merged back into Stow archdeaconry
of Stow and Lindsey	Roderick Wells (previously Archdeacon of Stow) Tim Ellis Jane Sinclair Mark Steadman

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