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Rev. Canon Alfred Swann ,
MA ,
DSC (12 July 1893
[1] – 7 October 1961) was
Dean and
Archdeacon of
Hong Kong from 1927 to 1935.
[2]
Biography
He was born in
Japan to British parents.
[3] He was educated at
Rugby and
Trinity Hall, Cambridge . After
wartime service in the
RNVR
[4] he was
ordained in 1922. Following a
curacy in
Kirkburton
[5] he was
Vicar of
Liversedge before his time in
Hong Kong ; and held
incumbencies in
Wiltshire
[6] and
Somerset afterwards.
References
^ 1939 England and Wales Register
^ "SWANN, Rev. Canon Alfred", 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 26 Aug 2014
^ 1901 England Census
^
London Gazette
^
Crockford's Clerical Directory 1959/60 p 1129:Oxford,
OUP , 1959
^ "Ecclesiastical News."
The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jan 11, 1936; pg. 15; Issue 47269