Cyril Morton (priest)

Cyril Evelyn Morton (1885 – 27 July 1932[1]) was an Anglican priest.[2]

Educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon, he was ordained in 1908[3] and began his ordained ministry with curacies in Hampstead and Roehampton. He was then an incumbent at Clifton On Dunsmore and Holy Trinity, Beauchamp Avenue, Leamington Spa. In 1929 he became Sub-Dean of the Coventry Cathedral and, in 1931, following a change in the law, the cathedral's first provost.[4] He is buried in the churchyard at Lillington, Warwickshire.[5]

References
  1. "Provost Morton", The Times, 28 July 1932, p18.
  2. Herry’s Archives
  3. "The Clergy List", London, Kelly’s, 1913
  4. The Times, 18 August 1931, p13, "Ecclesiastical News: Coventry Cathedral"
  5. Tributes to the late Provost of Coventry, Leamington Spa Courier, 5 August 1932, p6.
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Inaugural appointment		 Provost of Coventry Cathedral
1931–1932		 Succeeded by
Richard Thomas Howard


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