Henry Griffith (priest)

Henry Wager Griffith
Born (1850-07-23)23 July 1850
Died 3 May 1932(1932-05-03) (aged 81)
Alma mater The Queen's College, Oxford
Ordained 1877

The Ven Henry Wager Griffith, (23 July 1850 – 3 May 1932)[1] was Archdeacon of Lahore from 1900[2] to 1905.[3]

He was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford and ordained in 1877. He held Curacies in Ramsgate, and Kennington. In 1881 he went to India as a Chaplain, serving at Umballa, Delhi, Karachi, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Murree and Amritsar before[4] his years as Archdeacon.[5] On his return from Lahore he was appointed Vicar[6] of All Saints,[7] Thorp Arch, West Yorkshire.[8]

Notes

  1. ↑ Deaths. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, May 04, 1932; pg. 1; Issue 46124
  2. ↑ Army List
  3. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p593: London, Horace Cox, 1908
  4. ↑ National Archives
  5. ↑ ‘GRIFFITH, Ven. Henry Wager’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 12 April 2014
  6. ↑ Ecclesiastical Intelligence. The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jul 20, 1905; pg. 12; Issue 37764
  7. ↑ London Gazette
  8. ↑ Geograph
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Andrew Spens		 Archdeacon of Lahore
1900–1905		 Succeeded by
Charles Gillmore


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