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Godfrey Worsley
Godfrey Stuart Harling Worsley (4 December 1906 – 10 November 1990) was an Anglican priest in the 20th century. Worsley was born into an ecclesiastical family. His father was A. E. Worsley, sometime Rector of Georgeham on 4 December 1906 and educated at Dean Close School. He was ordained deacon in 1929 and priest in 1931 and began ministry as a curate at Croydon Parish Church. In 1933 he became a chaplain to the British Armed Forces. serving until 1954 when he became Rector of Kingsland, Herefordshire. In 1960 he was appointed Dean of Gibraltar,''Ecclesiastical News. New Dean of Gibraltar'' The Times (London, England), Friday, Jun 10, 1960; pg. 8; Issue 54794 a position he held until 1969, and after which he was made Dean emeritus. He was of Rector of Penselwood Penselwood is a village and civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It is located north east of Wincanton, south east of Bruton, west of Mere, and north west of Gillingham. The south-east of the parish ...
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Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide . Adherents of Anglicanism are called ''Anglicans''; they are also called ''Episcopalians'' in some countries. The majority of Anglicans are members of national or regional ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, which forms the third-largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. These provinces are in full communion with the See of Canterbury and thus with the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom the communion refers to as its ''primus inter pares'' (Latin, 'first among equals'). The Archbishop calls the decennial Lambeth Conference, chairs the meeting of primates, and is ...
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Kingsland, Herefordshire
Kingsland is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Herefordshire, north-west of Leominster. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 986. The village church was built during the reign of Edward I (1239–1307) by Edward, Lord Mortimer and is dedicated to St Michael. To the west of the church are the earthwork remains of a motte-and-bailey A motte-and-bailey castle is a European fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised area of ground called a motte, accompanied by a walled courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade. Relatively easy to ... castle, known to locals as 'The Mound'. Mortimer Park, located just outside the village, is home to Luctonians Rugby Club who currently play in the fourth tier rugby union league, National League 2 West. References External linksCommunity Website Villages in Herefordshire {{Herefordshire-geo-stub ...
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1990 Deaths
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Vic ...
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Officers Of The Order Of The British Empire
An officer is a person who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization. The term derives from Old French ''oficier'' "officer, official" (early 14c., Modern French ''officier''), from Medieval Latin ''officiarius'' "an officer," from Latin ''officium'' "a service, a duty" the late Latin from ''officiarius'', meaning "official." Examples Ceremonial and other contexts *Officer, and/or Grand Officer, are both a grade, class, or rank of within certain chivalric orders and orders of merit, e.g. Legion of Honour (France), Order of the Holy Sepulchre (Holy See), Order of the British Empire ( UK), Order of Leopold (Belgium) * Great Officer of State * Merchant marine officer or licensed mariner * Officer of arms *Officer in The Salvation Army, and other state decorations Corporations *Bank officer *Corporate officer, a corporate title **Chief executive officer (CEO) **Chief financial officer (CFO) ** Chief operating officer (COO) *Executive officer Education *Chi ...
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Deans Of Gibraltar
The Dean of Gibraltar is the head (''primus inter pares'' – first among equals) and chair of the chapter of canons, the ruling body of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar. The cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese in Europe and the seat of the Bishop in Europe (though the bishop is now based in Brussels). The current (2020) Dean is Ian Tarrant. List of deans *1905–1912 Decimus Govett *1913–1920 William Hayter *1921–1927 James Cropper *1928–1933 Geoffrey Warde *1933–1941 Walter Knight-Adkin *1941–1943 James Johnston ''(Acting)'' *1943–1945 William Ashley-Brown *1945–1950 Stephen Nason *1950–1960 Henry Lloyd *1960–1968 Godfrey Worsley *1968–1973 Ken Giggall *1973–1978 Ambrose Weekes *1978–1983 Robert Pope *1983–1985 John Rowlands *1986–1988 Anthony Nind *1989–1997 Brian Horlock *1997–2000 Gordon Reid *2000–2003 Kenneth Robinson *2003–2008 Alan Woods *2008November 2017
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People Educated At Dean Close School
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form " people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural ...
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1906 Births
Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, and establish a national assembly, the Majlis. * January 16– April 7 – The Algeciras Conference convenes, to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany. * January 22 – The strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, Canada, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster. * January 31 – The Ecuador–Colombia earthquake (8.8 on the Moment magnitude scale), and associated tsunami, cause at least 500 deaths. * February 7 – is launched, sparking a naval race between Britain and Germany. * February 11 ** Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical '' Vehementer Nos'', denouncing the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State. ** Two British members of a poll tax colle ...
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Ken Giggall
George Kenneth Giggall (15 April 1913 – 23 September 1999) was an Anglican bishop. Biography Giggall was born on 15 April 1913 and educated at Manchester University. After a period of study at St Chad's College, Durham. He was ordained deacon in 1939 and priest in 1940 and began his ministry as a curate at St Alban's Cheetwood and St Elisabeth's Reddish. In 1945 he joined the Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ... as a chaplain, serving until 1968 when he became Dean of Gibraltar. In 1973 he was appointed Bishop of St Helena,University of the Witwatersrand
a position he held until ...
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Henry Lloyd (priest)
Henry Morgan Lloyd DSO OBE (9 June 1911 – 16 April 2001) was an Anglican priest in the second half of the 20th century. He was born into an ecclesiastical family, his father being the Revd David Lloyd, sometime Vicar of Weston-super-Mare and educated at Canford School and Oriel College, Oxford. Ordained in 1935 he was a curate at Hendon. He then served his country during World War II as a chaplain in the RNVR. He was awarded the DSO for his actions on board HMS Illustrious in January 1941; Illustrious, escorting a convoy to Malta, was subject to fierce air attacks during which she was struck by multiple bombs. The award was for his "gallantry and exemplary conduct"; he "worked incessantly on behalf of the wounded with complete disregard for his own safety" and "was conspicuous on the quarter deck, where many wounded men were isolated and a fierce fire was burning below, far into the night". His practice of broadcasting a running commentary of the battle for the benefit o ...
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Penselwood
Penselwood is a village and civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It is located north east of Wincanton, south east of Bruton, west of Mere, and north west of Gillingham. The south-east of the parish borders Zeals and Stourhead in Wiltshire, and Bourton in Dorset. In 1991 the parish occupied 523 hectares (1,292 acres). Name The medieval form of the name was "Penn in Selwood", where ''pen'' ( Brittonic for "head") probably referred to a hill and ''Selwood'' was the Selwood Forest which once surrounded the area. David Nash Ford associated nearby Ilchester with the Nennius (). Theodor Mommsen (). ''Historia Brittonum'', VI. Composed after AD 830. Hosted at Latin Wikisource. listed among the 28 cities of Britain by the ''History of the Britons'' on the basis that it should be read as an Old Welsh form of 'Penselwood'Ford, David Nash.The 28 Cities of Britain" at Britannia. 2000. (''coit'' being Welsh for "forest"), although others view it as three separate wo ...
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The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'', which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1966. In general, the political position of ''The Times'' is considered to be centre-right. ''The Times'' is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as '' The Times of India'', ''The New York Times'', and more recently, digital-first publications such as TheTimesBlog.com (Since 2017). In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as , or as , although the newspaper is of na ...
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Dean Of Gibraltar
The Dean of Gibraltar is the head (''primus inter pares'' – first among equals) and chair of the chapter of canons, the ruling body of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar. The cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese in Europe and the seat of the Bishop in Europe (though the bishop is now based in Brussels). The current (2020) Dean is Ian Tarrant. List of deans *1905–1912 Decimus Govett *1913–1920 William Hayter *1921–1927 James Cropper *1928–1933 Geoffrey Warde *1933–1941 Walter Knight-Adkin *1941–1943 James Johnston ''(Acting)'' *1943–1945 William Ashley-Brown *1945–1950 Stephen Nason *1950–1960 Henry Lloyd *1960–1968 Godfrey Worsley *1968–1973 Ken Giggall *1973–1978 Ambrose Weekes *1978–1983 Robert Pope *1983–1985 John Rowlands *1986–1988 Anthony Nind *1989–1997 Brian Horlock *1997–2000 Gordon Reid *2000–2003 Kenneth Robinson *2003–2008 Alan Woods *2008November 2017
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