Frederick William Sears
British Archdeacon
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| Intro | British Archdeacon | |||
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |||
| was | Curator Vicar Judge Canon Deacon | |||
| Work field | Arts Law Religion | |||
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| Birth | 1871 | |||
| Death | 1955 (aged 84 years) | |||
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Frederick Williams Sears (1871 – 9 November 1955) was Archdeacon of Cheltenham from 1932 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 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.