{{Short description|British Anglican priest and author}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Portal|Christianity}} '''Charles James Stranks''' (10 May 1901 – 30 August 1981)<ref>''The Venerable C. J. Stranks.'' The Times (London, England), Saturday, 5 September 1981; pg. 10; Issue 61025</ref> was a British Anglican priest<ref>''Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76'' p 307:London, OUP, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}</ref> and author.<ref>Amongst others he wrote ''The Apostle of the Indies'', 1933; ''Japan in the World Crisis'', 1941; ''The Approach to Belief'', 1947; ''Our Task To-day'', 1950; ''The Life and Writings of Jeremy Taylor'', 1952; ''Dean Hook'', 1954; ''Anglican Devotion'', 1961; ''Country Boy: The Autobiography of Richard Hillyer'', 1966; ''The Path of Glory: The Autobiography of John Shipp'', 1969; and ''This Sumptuous Church: the story of Durham Cathedral'', 1973 > British Library web site accessed 16:47 GMT Sunday 4 June 2017</ref>
Stranks was born in Buckinghamshire,<ref>[http://little-corner-of-the-earth.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/country-boy.html LCOTE]</ref> educated at Durham University<ref>{{cite web|title=Durham University Calendar 1936-7|url=http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=bookreader/DU_Calendars/1936-7/ducal1936METS.xml;query=charles%20stranks;brand=default#page/458/mode/2up|website=reed.dur.ac.uk|accessdate=14 March 2018|language=en}}</ref> and St Boniface College, Warminster; and ordained in 1926. After a curacy in Leeds he was a missionary in Japan from 1928 to 1940. He was the Vicar of Morecambe from 1941 to 1947; Warden of Whalley Abbey from 1947<ref>''Ecclesiastical News'' The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 6 May 1947; pg. 7; Issue 50753</ref> from 1947 to 1953; a Canon at Durham University from 1954; and Archdeacon of Auckland from 1958 to 1973.<ref>‘STRANKS, Ven. Charles James’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U169549, accessed 4 June 2017]</ref>
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