Frank Crosse
Frank Parker Crosse MC[1] (24 October 1897 – 15 March 1979) was a British soldier and Church of England clergyman who became Dean of Grahamstown in South Africa, and was styled The Very Reverend Frank Crosse.
Life
Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,[2] early in the First World War Crosse was commissioned as a Second lieutenant into the South Staffordshire Regiment and in 1916 was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry.[3] After the War he trained for the priesthood at Lincoln Theological College, was ordained deacon in 1923[4] and after a curacy in Bolsover he was vicar at Derry Hill, then at Branksome; and was later Rector of Barlborough[5] and Morton.[6] In 1934 he was appointed as Dean of Grahamstown Cathedral,[2][7][8] also becoming its Archdeacon and Rural Dean.
References
- ↑ "Military Cross". Evening Despatch. Birmingham. 27 November 1916. p. 3 col B. Retrieved 3 September 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1947-48 (Oxford, OUP, 1947), p. 299
- ↑ "No. 29837". The London Gazette (Supplement). 24 November 1916. p. 11534.
- ↑ "Diocese Of Southwell". Derby Daily Telegraph. 22 December 1923. Retrieved 3 September 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "New Rector Of Barlboro'". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. No. 7850. 10 November 1944. p. 1 col C. Retrieved 3 September 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ Newsletter June 2011 (PDF), Morton Parish Council, 2011, p. 8, retrieved 3 September 2014
- ↑ Charles Gould; Jeanette Eve (2011). Grahamstown Cathedral: A Guide and Short History. Eastern Cape Reprints. p. A:25. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ↑ ‘CROSSE, Rev. Frank Parker’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 25 May 2014(subscription required)
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