Richard Burne

Richard Vernon Higgins Burne FSA (19 March 1882 – 9 March 1970) was Archdeacon of Chester from 1937 to 1965.^[1]

Burne was educated at Malvern College, Keble College, Oxford and Ripon College Cuddesdon. After a curacy in Slough he became chaplain to the Charles Ferguson-Davie, the Bishop of Singapore, in 1913.^[2] During World War I he was a chaplain to the British Armed Forces. After the war he was a tutor at the Ordination Test School, Knutsford; and then its principal from 1923 until his archdeacon’s appointment.^[3]

References[]

^ "Burne, Ven. Richard Vernon Higgins", Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 10 Oct 2012.
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory, London OUP, 1948.
^ "New Archdeacon of Chester", The Times (London, England), 29 September 1937, p. 15.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Norman Henry Tubbs	Archdeacon of Chester 1937–1965	Succeeded by Leslie Gravatt Fisher

This article about a Church of England archdeacon in the Province of York is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

show v t Archdeacons of Chester
Early Medieval	(I) Richard Peche (II) Ralph de Maidstone Silvester de Everdon John Basing /
Late Medieval	Richard de Havering John de Ufford Michael Northburgh Nicholas Slake Sir John Morton Edmund Chaderton, Archdeacon of Salisbury
Early modern	John Vesey Cuthbert Tunstall William Knight John Birde, Bishop of Chester Robert Perceval (twice) Robert Rogers Cuthbert Bellott George Snell John Carter William Finmore John Allen Edmund Entwisle John Thane Lewis Stephens William Powell Abel Ward George Taylor George Travis Thomas Breithweite
Late modern	Unwin Clarke Isaac Wood Edward Woolnough Richard Greenall William Pollock Edward Johnson John Darby Edward Barber Paige Cox Norman Tubbs Richard Burne Leslie Fisher Leslie Williams Michael Gear Geoffrey Turner Christopher Hewetson Donald Allister Michael Gilbertson

show v t Diocese of Chester
Chester Cathedral St John's, Chester
Office holders	Mark Tanner, Bishop of Chester Julie Conalty, Bishop suffragan of Birkenhead Sam Corley, Bishop suffragan of Stockport AEO: Glyn Webster, Bishop suffragan of Beverley Tim Stratford, Dean of Chester Michael Gilbertson, Archdeacon of Chester Ian Bishop, Archdeacon of Macclesfield
Historic offices	Archdeacon of Manchester Archdeacon of Liverpool