Francis Partridge (b Dursley, Gloucestershire, England 1846 – d Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada 1906) was an Anglican priest in Canada [1] during the last decades of the Nineteenth century and the first of the 20th. [2]
Educated at Katharine Lady Berkeley's School [3] and St Augustine's College, Canterbury he emigrated to Canada in 1868 and became Headmaster of the Grammar School at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, a post he held until 1872. He was Rector of Rothesay, New Brunswick from then until 1879 when he was appointed a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton. He was Rector of St George's, Halifax, Nova Scotia from 1881 until 1895, [4] also holding the position of Lecturer in Apologetics at the University of King's College beginning in 1886. In 1895 [5] he became the first Dean of Fredericton; [6] and died in post on 18 April 1906. [7]
Notes
- ^ Anglican Parish of Cambridge & Waterborough
- ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
- ^ ‘PARTRIDGE, Very Rev. Francis’, 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 15 Nov 2014
- ^ Pacey, Elizabeth. Miracle on Brunswick Street. Halifax, NS: Nimbus Publishing Ltd., (2003) p.107
- ^ The Guardian announces the following preferments The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jan 31, 1895; pg. 11; Issue 34488
- ^ "Heritage Fredericton". Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
- ^ Daily Sun 18 April 1906
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