Fred Pickering (18 November 1919 - 22 January 2010) was
Archdeacon of Hampstead
The Archdeacon of Hampstead is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of London, named after, and based in and around, the Hampstead area of London. They are the priest responsible for the Archdeaconry of Hampstead.
Hist ...
from 1974 to 1984.
Pickering was educated at
Preston Grammar School,
St Peter's College Oxford and
St Aidan's College Birkenhead. He began his career with
curacies in
Leyland and
Islington
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. He was Organising Secretary. for
The Church Pastoral Aid Society from 1948 to 1951. He held
incumbencies at All Saints,
Burton-on-Trent
Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 censu ...
, St John,
Carlisle
Carlisle ( , ; from ) is a city in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England.
Carlisle's early history is marked by the establishment of a settlement called Luguvalium to serve forts along Hadrian's Wall in Roman Britain. Due to its pro ...
and St Cuthbert,
Wood Green
Wood Green is a suburban district of the London Borough of Haringey, London, England. Its postal district is N22, with parts in N8 or N15. The London Plan identifies it as one of the metropolitan centres in Greater London, and today it forms ...
. He was also
Rural Dean
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of
East Haringey from 1968 to 1973; and
Examining Chaplain
A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution (such as a hospital, prison, military unit, intelligenc ...
to the
Bishop of Edmonton from 1973 to 1984.
[‘PICKERING, Ven. Fred’, 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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Notes
1919 births
2010 deaths
Archdeacons of Hampstead
Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford
Alumni of St Aidans College Birkenhead
People educated at Preston Grammar School
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