William Donne (29 October 1845 – 5 March 1914) [1] was Archdeacon of Huddersfield from 1892 [2] to 1913.
Baines was born into an ecclesiastical family [3] in Oswestry; educated at Wellington College and Brasenose College, Oxford; and ordained in 1876.
He was the Curate in charge of the Winchester College Mission from 1876 to 1881; and then held incumbencies at Limehouse, Great Yarmouth and Wakefield. He was an Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria and then King Edward VII.
References
- ^ Canon's Death At Sea The Times (London, England), Monday, 9 March 1914; p. 5; Issue 40466
- ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
- ^ His father was The Rev. Stephen Donne > ‘DONNE, Ven. William’, 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 3 December 2014