Claud Syms Scott (31 August 1901 – 14 October 1983) was
Archdeacon of Suffolk
The Archdeacon of Suffolk is a senior cleric in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
The archdeacon is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy in the territory of the archdeaconry.
History
Originally in the Dioceses of No ...
from 1962.
Scott was educated at
Brentwood School and
Trinity College, Oxford
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, sister_college = Churchill College, Cambridge
, president = Dame Hilary Boulding
, location = Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BH
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. He was
ordained
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in 1927 and began his career with a
curacy
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in
Bedminster. He was
Curate in charge at All Hallows
Ipswich
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from 1930 to 1938;
Vicar
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of
Exning
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It lies just off the A14 trunk road, roughly east-northeast of Cambridge, and south-southeast of Ely. The nearest large town is Newmarket.
The ...
with
Landwade
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from 1938 to 1954;
Master
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of the
Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers
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in 1951;
Rural Dean
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of
Newmarket from 1946 to 1954;
Rector
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of
Stradbroke
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Heritage
The village was listed in the Domesday Book ...
with
Horham and
Athelington
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from 1954 to 1958;
Rector
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*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of
St Mary Stoke
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from 1958 to 1962;
Rural Dean
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of
Ipswich
Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line r ...
from 1958 to 1961; and
Vicar
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of
Hoxne
Hoxne ( ) is a village in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, about five miles (8 km) east-southeast of Diss, Norfolk and south of the River Waveney. The parish is irregularly shaped, covering the villages of Hoxne, Cross Street a ...
with
Denham St John from 1962 to 1970.
[‘SCOTT, Ven. Claud Syms’, 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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References
1901 births
1983 deaths
Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon
People educated at Brentwood School, Essex
Archdeacons of Suffolk
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