Roy Southwell was the first Archdeacon of Northolt from 1970 to 1980. Born in Sudbury on 3 December 1914, he was educated at Sudbury Grammar School and King's College London. After

curacies A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...

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and

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he held incumbencies at

Ixworth Ixworth is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, north-east of Bury St Edmunds on the A143 road to Diss and south-east of Thetford. The parish had a population of 2,365 at the 2011 Census. History I ...

(1948), Bury St Edmunds (1951) and

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(1956) Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) before becoming the

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’s Director of Education, a post he held from 1959 to 1967. He was

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from then until his

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’s appointment. He died on 23 July 2011. He had married Nancy Sharp and had two daughters.

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1914 births People from Sudbury, Suffolk People educated at Sudbury Grammar School Alumni of King's College London Archdeacons of Northolt 2011 deaths {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub