Ernest Gordon Reid was the Archdeacon of Hastings[1] from 1938[2] until 1956.[3]
Reid was from Cuckfield;[4] educated at Harrow School, Pembroke College, Oxford; and Wells Theological College;[5] and ordained deacon in 1909, and priest in 1910. After a curacy at St Anthony, Stepney he was Chaplain of Oxford House, Bethnal Green, 1912 then Vicar of St Peter's in the same area. He was Rector of Sedlescombe[6] with Whatlington from 1920 to 1926; and Vicar of Holy Trinity, Hastings from 1926 to 1938.[7] He died on Christmas Day 1966.[8]
References edit
- ^ thePeerage.com
- ^ Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 22 February 1938; pg. 17; Issue 47925
- ^ Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Monday, 4 June 1956; pg. 14; Issue 53548
- ^ Cuckfield Museum
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1951–52, London, OUP, 1951
- ^ BTA Newsletter No 31
- ^ 'REID, Ven. Ernest Gordon', 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 18 July 2016
- ^ Deaths. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 28 December 1966; pg. 2; Issue 56824