Alan Whitmore Cornwall (4 October 1858 – 9 June 1932) was

Archdeacon of Cheltenham The Archdeacon of Cheltenham is a senior cleric in the Diocese of Gloucester who is responsible for some pastoral care and discipline of clergy in the Cheltenham archdeaconry. The archdeaconry was created as the Archdeaconry of Cirencester in the ...

from 1924 until his death. Born at

Uley Uley is a village and civil parish in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Elcombe and Shadwell and Bencombe, all to the south of the village of Uley, and the hamlet of Crawley to the north. The village ...

on 4 October 1858 into an ecclesiastical family he was educated at Eton and

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and

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after a period of study at Wells Theological College in 1884. After curacies in

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and

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he was the

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of Coleford from 1891 until 1899; and then of Thornbury until his

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's appointment. He died on 9 June 1932. His son,

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, was Bishop of Borneo from 1949 until

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1959-60 Oxford,

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, 1929 p114 1962.

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1858 births People from Uley People educated at Eton College Alumni of University College, Oxford Archdeacons of Cheltenham 1932 deaths {{Canterbury-archdeacon-19C-stub