Charles Kempson Waller (22 September 189116 January 1951) was

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from 1949 until his death. Waller was educated at

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, St John's College Oxford and

Wells Theological College Wells Theological College began operation in 1840 within the Cathedral Close of Wells Cathedral. It was one of several new colleges created in the nineteenth century to cater not just for non-graduates, but for graduates from the old universiti ...

. He was

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in 1914; and

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in 1915. After curacies in

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and

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he was

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of St Martin's,

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from 1925 to 1929. He then held incumbencies in

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and

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before his

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appointment.‘WALLER, Very Rev. Charles Kempson’, 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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1891 births 1951 deaths People educated at Felsted School Alumni of St John's College, Oxford Anglican provosts of the Diocese of Egypt Alumni of Wells Theological College Provosts and Deans of Chelmsford {{UK-reli-bio-stub