Theodore Churton

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Portal|Christianity}} '''Theodore Townson Churton''' was an Anglican priest in the early 20th century.<ref>The Times, Thursday, Aug 10, 1899; pg. 14; Issue 35904; col A '' Public Appointments''</ref>

He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 24 April 1853<ref>His father was the Revd Prebendary H. B. W. Churton, sometime Vicar, Icklesham, Sussex and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Chichester, a post his son was also to hold> “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}</ref> and educated at New College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1883 and was Curate of Holy Trinity, Hastings<ref>”The Clergy List” London, Hamilton & Co 1889</ref> until his appointment to his father's old parish at Icklesham in 1891. He was Archdeacon of Lewes from 1908 to 1912<ref>[http://www.sussex-opc.org/Kelly1911/ChichesterKellys1911.htm Kelly’s]</ref> and then of Hastings<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=182-ep_3&cid=-1#-1 National Archives]</ref> until his death on 1 June 1915.<ref>The Times, Friday, Jun 04, 1915; pg. 12; Issue 40872; col G '' News in Brief''</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-rel|en}} {{s-bef|before=Robert Sutton}} {{s-ttl|title=Archdeacon of Lewes|years=1908 – 1912}} {{s-aft|after=Henry Kemble Southwell}} {{s-bef|before= Inaugural appointment }} {{s-ttl|title= Archdeacon of Hastings|years=1912– 1915}} {{s-aft|after=Benedict George Hoskyns}} {{end}}

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