Edward Seagar

Edward Leslie Seager was Archdeacon of Dorset from 1955 to 1974.[1]

Born on 5 October 1904, he was educated at Bromsgrove School and Durham University, becoming ordained in 1929. At Durham he was a member of Hatfield College[2] and served as President of the Durham Union for Easter term of 1927.[3] He was Chaplain at Wellington School from 1931 until 1939; and a Chaplain to the Forces from then[4] until 1946. He was Vicar of Gillingham, Dorset from 1946 to 1979, Rural Dean of Shaftesbury from 1951 to 1956; and a Canon of Salisbury Cathedral from 1954 to 1968.

He died on 2 November 1983.[5]

Notes
  1. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  2. "Durham University Calendar 1936-7". reed.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  3. Campbell, P. D. A. (1952). A Short History of the Durham Union Society. Durham County Press. p. 17.
  4. London Gazette 8 August 1939
  5. ‘SEAGER, Ven Edward Leslie’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 22 Nov 2012


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