William Okes Parish (26 June 1859 – 7 April 1940) was an Anglican cleric who was Archdeacon of Dorset from 1929 to 1936.[1]
Parish was born in Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire,[2] into an ecclesiastical family, the elder son of The Reverend William Samuel Parish, MA, Fellow of Peterhouse[3] He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge[4] and ordained in 1884.[5] He was Vicar of Longfleet from 1886[6] to[7] 1929; Rural Dean of Poole from 1893[8] to 1929; and a Canon Residentiary of Salisbury Cathedral from 1929 to 1936.[9] He was also a Chaplain to the Dorset Regiment.[10]
He died on 7 April 1940.[11]
Notes
edit- ^ "Obituaries." Crockford's Clerical Directory 1940-41 Oxford, OUP, 1941
- ^ 1911 England Census
- ^ ‘PARISH, Ven. William Okes’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 23 Nov 2012
- ^ "University Intelligence MA awards" (Cambridge) The Times (London, England), Friday, May 29, 1885; pg. 7; Issue 31459
- ^ "Ordinations (Lincoln)" Nottinghamshire Guardian (London, England), Friday, June 13, 1884; pg. 5; Issue 2038
- ^ "Ecclesiastical Appointments." The Times (London, England), Friday, Jan 29, 1886; pg. 11; Issue 31669.
- ^ National Archives
- ^ "Ecclesiastical Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jun 22, 1893; pg. 9; Issue 33984
- ^ "Canon W.O. Parish." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Apr 09, 1940; pg. 10; Issue 48585
- ^ London Gazette July 23rd 1909
- ^ "Deaths." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, April 9, 1940; pg. 1; Issue 48585
