Raymond Ravenscroft
The Venerable Raymond Lockwood Ravenscroft (15 September 1931 - 18 May 2020) was an Anglican priest who was Archdeacon of Cornwall from 1988 to 1996.[1]
Ravenscroft was educated at Sea Point Boys' High School, the University of Leeds and the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield.[2] He was ordained deacon in 1955 and priest in 1956.[3] After curacies at St Alban, Goodwood, Cape Town in South Africa (1955-57) and St John's Cathedral, Bulawayo in what was then Southern Rhodesia (1957-59) he was Rector of Francistown in what was then Bechuanaland (1959-62).[4] He then returned to England and served at St Ives, Cornwall (1962-64); All Saints' Church, Falmouth, Cornwall (1964-68), Launceston, Cornwall (1968-74) and Grampound (1974-88).[5]
He married Ann Stockwell; she predeceased him, in 2008.[6] He died in 2020, aged 88.[7]
Notes[]
- ^ Church news. The Times (London, England), Thursday, February 08, 1996; pg. 20; Issue 65497
- ^ "Gavin Kirk". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th Edition, p 793.
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th Edition, p 793.
- ^ ‘RAVENSCROFT, Ven. Raymond Lockwood’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 9 July 2017
- ^ "Church Times: Obituary, The Ven Raymond Ravenscroft, 12 June 2020". Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ "Church Times: Obituary, The Ven Raymond Ravenscroft, 12 June 2020". Retrieved 18 February 2021.
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