{{Short description|Anglican priest}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Venerable | name = Frederick Ackerley | honorific_suffix = FRSA | image = | image_size = 150px | order = Archdeacon of Bradford | term_start = 1932 | term_end = 1934 | monarch = | predecessor = | successor = | order2 = Archdeacon of Craven | term_start2 = 1934 | term_end2 = 1949 | monarch2 = | prime_minister2 = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | order3 = | term_start3 = | term_end3 = | monarch3 = | prime_minister3 = | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | order4 = | term_start4 = | term_end4 = | monarch4 = | prime_minister4 = | predecessor4 = | successor4 = | order5 = | term_start5 = | term_end5 = | monarch5 = | prime_minister5 = | predecessor5 = | successor5 = | order6 = | term_start6 = | term_end6 = | prime_minister6 = | predecessor6 = | successor6 = | birth_date = 12 November 1871 | birth_place = | death_date = 21 October 1954 | death_place = | party = | alma_mater = | spouse = 1902 Vera Mary née Hill (d 1947)<br /> 1949 Phyllis née Ray }} {{Portal|Christianity}} ''' Frederick George Ackerley ''' (1871–1954) was an Anglican priest in the Church of England,<ref>The Times, Saturday, Oct 23, 1954; pg. 8; Issue 53070; col D '' Canon F. G. Ackerley''</ref> at different times the Archdeacon of Bradford then Craven.<ref>[http://www.thornber.net/famhist/htmlfiles/biblio.html Select bibliography for Bowland, Craven and Pendle]</ref> He was also an acknowledged scholar of Romany language and culture.<ref>[http://periodicals.faqs.org/201001/2184045471.html The earliest vocabulary of Romani words]</ref>

Ackerley was educated at Rossall School and Jesus College, Oxford<ref>"Who was Who" 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}</ref> and ordained in 1898. He served curacies in Keighley,<ref>"The Clergy List" London, John Phillips, 1900</ref> Eccles, and Washington and incumbencies at Grindleton, Great Mitton and Carleton-in-Craven. Later he was Rural Dean of Bolland before his years as an Archdeacon.

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