The Ven. Sidney Denham Austerberry (28 October 1908 - 22 March 1996) was
Archdeacon of Salop
The Archdeacon of Salop is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield. The incumbent is Paul Thomas.
History
Shropshire was historically split between the diocese of Hereford (under the Archdeacon of Shropshir ...
from 1959, to 1979.
Austerberry was educated at
Hanley High School and
Egerton Hall, Manchester. he was
ordained
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deacon
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in 1931 and
priest
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in 1933. After a
curacy in
Newcastle-under-Lyme
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he held
incumbencies in
Shrewsbury
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,
Brewood
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and
Great Ness
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Common Local Governance
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. he was
Rural Dean
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of
Penkridge
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from 1958 to 1959; and an
Honorary Canon of
Lichfield Cathedral
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from 1968 to 1979.
[‘AUSTERBERRY, Ven. Sidney Denham’, 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
1908 births
People educated at Hanley High School
Alumni of Egerton Hall, Manchester
Archdeacons of Salop
Archdeacons of Stafford
1996 deaths
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