Harold Ormandy Fielding (13 November 1912 – 30 August 1987) was an

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priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deity, deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in parti ...

who served as

Archdeacon of Rochdale The Archdeacon of Rochdale is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, Diocese of Manchester. As Archdeacon, they are responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within the five Rural Dean, area de ...

from 1972 to 1982. Born in 1912, the son of Harold W. Fielding and Florence Fielding (née Ormandy), he was educated at

Farnworth Grammar School Farnworth Grammar School was a grammar school founded in 1715 at Farnworth, Lancashire. The school was first established at Moses Gate and educated boys. It relocated to Bolton Road in 1922 and became coeducational at the same time. It closed ...

and

Magdalene College, Cambridge Magdalene College ( ) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary ...

, and then trained for the

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Ripon College Cuddesdon Ripon College Cuddesdon (RCC) is a Church of England seminary, theological college in Cuddesdon, a village outside Oxford, England. The College trains men and women for ministry in the Church of England: stipendiary, non-stipendiary, local orda ...

. Fielding married to Elsie Whillance at St James' Church, Farnworth in 1939. They had four children: Timothy, Robert, Catherine, and John. After curacies at St Mary's, Leigh and St Paul's,

Walkden Walkden is a town in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, northwest of central Salford, and of Manchester. Walkden has been designated as one of seven main town centres in the City of Salford, and now largely functions as a r ...

, he was

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of St James',

New Bury Farnworth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, southeast of Bolton, 4 miles south-west of Bury (7 km), and northwest of Manchester. Within the historic county of Lancashire, Farnworth lies on ...

from 1944 to 1965. Fielding was then

of St Peter's, Bolton from 1965 to 1982, during which time he also became

. After his retirement, he lived in

Bromley Cross Bromley Cross is a residential area of South Turton in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It gives its name to a larger Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, electoral ward, which includes Eagley, Eg ...

, a suburb in the

Metropolitan Borough of Bolton The Metropolitan Borough of Bolton ( ) is a metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, named after its largest town, Bolton, but covering a larger area which includes Blackrod, Farnworth, Horwich, Kearsley, Westhoughton, and part of ...

. He published a book in 1983 about

James Slade James Slade, (1783–1860), generally remembered as Canon Slade, was the Vicar of St Peter's Church, Bolton le Moors, Lancashire, England from 1817 to 1856. Life James Slade was born in Daventry, Northamptonshire on 2 May 1783 to the Reverend ...

, Vicar of St Peter's, Bolton, one of Fielding's 19th-century predecessors. He died on 30 August 1987, aged 74.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fielding, HaroldOrmandy 1912 births People educated at Farnworth Grammar School Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon Archdeacons of Rochdale 1987 deaths