Ellis Gowing
Ellis Norman Gowing (24 April 1883 – 2 March 1960)[1] was Archdeacon of Southend from 1938 until 1953.[2]
Gowing was educated at Fort Street High School[3] and the University of Sydney; and ordained in 1907.[4] He began his career as a Curate at The Oaks, New South Wales, after which he served at Armidale Cathedral. Coming to England he was on the staff of St James the Less, Bethnal Green then domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Chelmsford from 1914 to 1917.[5] He was vicar of Prittlewell from 1917 until his death; an honorary canon of Chelmsford Cathedral from 1921 to 1938 and Rural Dean of Canewdon from 1918 to 1938. He was given the Freedom of the County Borough of Southend-on-Sea in 1953.[6]
References
- ↑ Deaths The Times (London, England), Saturday, 5 March 1960; pg. 1; Issue 54712
- ↑ 'GOWING, Ven. Ellis Norman', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 16 May 2015
- ↑ Trove
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929–30: Oxford, OUP, 1929 p 508
- ↑ "John Edwin Watts-Ditchfield, first Bishop of Chelmsford" Gowing, E.N: London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1926; British Library website accessed 10:13 GMT 16 May 2015
- ↑ "News in Brief", The Times (London, England), 1 April 1954, p. 3.
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