Charles James Stranks (10 May 1901 – 30 August 1981) was a British

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priest and author. Stranks was born in

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, educated at

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and St Boniface College, Warminster; and

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in 1926. After a

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he was a

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in Japan from 1928 to 1940. He was the

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Morecambe Morecambe ( ) is a seaside town and civil parish in the City of Lancaster district of Lancashire, England, on Morecambe Bay, part of the Irish Sea. In 2011 the parish had a population of 34,768. Name The first use of the name was by John Whit ...

from 1941 to 1947;

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Whalley Abbey Whalley Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in Whalley, Lancashire, England. After the dissolution of the monasteries, the abbey was largely demolished and a country house was built on the site. In the 20th century the house was modified ...

from 1947 from 1947 to 1953; a

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from 1954; and

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from 1958 to 1973.‘STRANKS, Ven. Charles James’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 201
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1901 births Alumni of St Chad's College, Durham Archdeacons of Auckland 1981 deaths Alumni of St Boniface Missionary College, Warminster Writers from Buckinghamshire Clergy from Buckinghamshire {{York-archdeacon-stub