Peter Graham Hogben (5 July 192526 November 2011) was Archdeacon of Dorking from 1982 until 1990.

Biography

Hogben was educated at

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and left school to commence wartime service with the

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. When peace returned he worked for two firms of agricultural auctioneers (in

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and in

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). He was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration in Christianity, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominationa ...

in 1961 and was

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at St John,

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from 1961 to 1964. He was

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of Westborough, Guildford from 1964 to 1971; and

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before his appointment as

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from 1982 until his retirement eight year later.‘HOGBEN, Peter Graham’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013; online edn, Dec 201
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hogben, Peter Graham 1925 births 2011 deaths People educated at The Harvey Grammar School Royal Engineers officers Alumni of Bishops' College, Cheshunt Archdeacons of Dorking