Frederick Robert Halsey Herbert Noyes (29 November 1839 – 1 January 1917) was a British

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and author. Noyes was born in

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, Belgium, the fifth son of Thomas Herbert Noyes and Mary Elizabeth Halsey of the Halseys of

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. He was Provost of the Cathedral of The Isles and Collegiate Church of the Holy Spirit, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae from 1875 to 1885; and Dean of Argyll and The Isles from 1883 to 1886 and later held incumbencies at Long Crichel with

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and then Dunnington. He died in

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on New Year's Day, 1917. In 1916, his son Capt. Talbot Ronald Arthur Herbert Noyes was killed at the

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in the First World War.

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19th-century English Anglican priests 20th-century English Anglican priests Provosts of the Cathedral of The Isles Deans of Argyll and The Isles 1839 births 1917 deaths {{UK-Anglican-clergy-stub