George Anson (priest)

George Henry Greville Anson (20 February 1820, in Marylebone – 9 February 1898, in Winchester[1]) was a clergyman and member of the Anson family. He was Rector of St James's, Birch-in-Rusholme and served as Archdeacon of Manchester from 30 May[2] 1870[3] to 1890.[4]

The son of Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet,[5] he was educated at Eton College[6] and Exeter College, Oxford[7] and ordained in 1843.[8] After a curacy at Leeds Parish Church[9] he was, for many years, the incumbent at St James,[10] Rusholme,[11] retiring from the posts of Rector, and Archdeacon of Manchester, in 1890.[4]

He married Augusta Agnes Hook on 27 June 1848.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Deaths". The Times. No. 35436. London, England. 10 February 1898. p. 1.
  2. ^ Mancuniensis
  3. ^ National Archives
  4. ^ a b "The New Archdeacon of Manchester". Manchester Faces and Places. II (1): 1. 10 October 1890.
  5. ^ Burke's Peerage 2003, page 110
  6. ^ ‘ANSON, Ven. George Henry Greville’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 24 June 2013
  7. ^ ‘UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE’ The Standard (London, England), Friday, 27 January 1843; Issue 5789
  8. ^ "Ordinations". The Morning Post. No. 22758. London, England. 22 December 1843.
  9. ^ Rusholme Archive
  10. ^ British History On-line
  11. ^ National Archives
  12. ^ "Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries". The Bradford Observer and Halifax, Huddersfield, and Keighley Reporter. No. 735. Bradford, England. 6 July 1848. p. 5.


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