Arthur Henry Ballard (9 March 1912 – 2 February 1984) was an

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priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deity, deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in parti ...

in the last third of the 20th century. He was educated at

St John's College, Durham St John's College is one of the Colleges of Durham University#Types of College, recognised colleges of Durham University. The college was established in 1909 as a Church of England theological college and became a full constituent college of th ...

and

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration in Christianity, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominationa ...

in 1939. After a

curacy A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' () of souls of a parish. In this sense, ''curate'' means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy who are ass ...

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he held incumbencies in Broughton and

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. He was

Rural Dean In the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion as well as some Lutheran denominations, a rural dean is a member of clergy who presides over a "rural deanery" (often referred to as a deanery); "ruridecanal" is the corresponding adjective ...

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from 1952 to 1967;

Archdeacon of Rochdale The Archdeacon of Rochdale is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, Diocese of Manchester. As Archdeacon, they are responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within the five Rural Dean, area de ...

from 1966 to 1972; and then of

Manchester Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...

from then until 1980. His son,

Andrew Edgar Ballard Andrew Edgar Ballard (born 14 January 1944) is an Anglican priest. He was Archdeacon of Rochdale from 2000 to 2005; and Archdeacon of Manchester from 2005 to 2009. He was educated at Rossall School, St John's College, Durham and Westcott House, ...

, was also

, from 2005 to 2009.‘BALLARD, Ven. Andrew Edgar’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 201
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1912 births Alumni of St John's College, Durham Archdeacons of Rochdale Archdeacons of Manchester 1984 deaths {{York-archdeacon-stub