Edward Leslie Seager was

Archdeacon of Dorset The Archdeacon of Dorset is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Salisbury, England. He or she is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within the four area deaneries: Purbeck, Poole, Wimborne, and Milto ...

from 1955 to 1974. Born on 5 October 1904, he was educated at Bromsgrove School and

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, becoming ordained in 1929. At Durham he was a member of

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and served as President of the

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for Easter term of 1927. He was

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at Wellington School from 1931 until 1939; and a

to the Forces from then until 1946. He was Vicar of

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from 1946 to 1979, Rural Dean of Shaftesbury from 1951 to 1956; and a Canon of

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from 1954 to 1968. He died on 2 November 1983.‘SEAGER, Ven Edward Leslie’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200
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1916 births People educated at Bromsgrove School Alumni of Hatfield College, Durham Archdeacons of Dorset 1982 deaths Presidents of the Durham Union {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub