Robert Cornthwaite Streatfeild[1] (1894 - 1976) was Dean of Nassau from 1934 until[2] 1943.[3]
Robert Cornthwaite Streatfeild was born on 17 October 1894 at Streatham, Surrey.[4] His father, Rev George Sidney Streatfeild (1844-1921) was vicar of Christ Church, Hampstead. Robert was educated at St Andrews College, Bradfield, Reading, Queens' College, Cambridge and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. During World War I he served with the Machine Gun Corps.[5]
Robert Streatfeild was ordained in 1926. After a curacy in Peckham he was Chaplain to the Bishop of Southwark. He was Vicar general of the Anglican Diocese of Nassau from 1936 to 1943; and Vicar of Leamington[6] on his return from the Caribbean.
He married Gisella Ruth Luttman in October 1938.[7] He retired to Mendip, Somerset where he died in July 1976.[8]
References edit
- ^ World Cat
- ^ The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Aug 03, 1938; pg. 13; Issue 48063
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1948 p1263 Oxford, OUP, 1948
- ^ England & Wales BMD indices, birth, Wandsworth, London, Oct-Dec 1894, vol 1d 310.
- ^ London Gazette
- ^ Google Books
- ^ England & Wales Marriages, , marriage Sevenoaks, Kent, Oct-Dec 1938, vol 2a 2573.
- ^ England & Wales Death Index 1916-2005 , death, age 81, Mendip Somerset, Jul-Sep 1976, vol 23 1078.
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