William Fearon (priest)
William Andrewes Fearon (4 February 1841 – 29 April 1924)[1] was an Anglican priest .
He was born in Assington , Suffolk, into an ecclesiastical family, the son of Rev. Daniel Rose Fearon, and Francis Jane Andrewes, daughter of Rev. Charles Andrewes.[2] He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford ,[3] where he was a Fellow from 1864 to 1867 and president of the Oxford Union in 1864.[4] He was ordained deacon in 1867[5] and priest the following year.[6]
He had a tutor ’s house at his old school from 1867 to 1882, during which time he married Mary Freeman, the daughter of an Archdeacon of Exeter [7] when he became Headmaster of Durham School . He was Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Newcastle from 1882 to 1884 when he returned to Winchester , where he was Headmaster until 1901. He was Archdeacon of Winchester from 1903 to 1920, Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester from 1903 to 1915; and Canon of Winchester from 1906 until 1920.[8]
References
^ "Dr. Fearon." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Apr 30, 1924; pg. 19; Issue 43639
^ Hardy, Henry John (1923). Winchester College, 1867-1920 . P. and G. Wells. p. 12. Retrieved 17 November 2023 .
^ "UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE" The Standard (London, England), Friday, October 14, 1859; pg. 6; Issue 10973
^ The Oxford Union, 1823-1923 , p. 314
^ "ECCLESIASTICAL" The Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton, England), Saturday, December 28, 1867; pg. 3; Issue 2313
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p 483: Horace Cox, London, 1908
^ "Marriages." Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, August 16, 1879; Issue 6596
^ ‘FEARON, Rev. William Andrewes’, Who Was Who , A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 5 April 2014
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