Frederick Sears (priest)

Frederick Williams Sears (1871 – 9 November 1955) was Archdeacon of Cheltenham from 1932[1] until 1943.

Sears was born in Taunton in 1871 and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained after a period of study at Wells Theological College in 1899[2] and began his ecclesiastical career with curacies in Ryhope and Gloucester. He was the Vicar of Nailsworth from 1908 until 1915; Rector of Minchinhampton from 1915 to 1918, and then Leckhampton from 1928 to 1938.

A Canon Residentiary of Gloucester Cathedral from 1938 to 1943, he died at Milford on Sea on 9 November 1955.[3]

References
  1. National Archives
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30 Oxford, OUP, 1929 p1151
  3. Obituary The Times (London, England), Thursday, Nov 10, 1955; pg. 15; Issue 53374
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Alan Whitmore Cornwall		 Archdeacon of Cheltenham
1932–1943		 Succeeded by
Edmund Theodore Murray


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