Gresham Kirkby

Reginald Gresham Kirkby (1916–2006) was an English Anglican priest and anarchist socialist.[2][3]

The Reverend

Gresham Kirkby
Born
Reginald Gresham Kirkby

(1916-08-11)11 August 1916
Cornwall, England
Died10 August 2006(2006-08-10) (aged 89)
Alma mater
Home townHelston, England[1]
ReligionChristianity (Anglican)
ChurchChurch of England
Ordained
  • 1942 (deacon)
  • 1943 (priest)
Congregations served
St Paul's, Bow Common

Kirkby was born in Cornwall on 11 August 1916.[2] His mother and aunt were Methodist, but he was inclined towards Anglo-Catholicism from an early age.[4] Kirby graduated from the University of Leeds and studied at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, West Yorkshire, where he became friends with Trevor Huddleston, in the 1940s.[2][5] He was ordained in Manchester[6] as a deacon in 1942 and as a priest in 1943[2] and served as vicar of St Paul's, Bow Common, London, from July 1951 to July 1994.[7] He retired in protest of the legalisation of the ordination of women.[8]

Kirby was an anarchist socialist (or anarcho-communist), an early supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and a member of the Committee of 100.[2] He was influenced by Peter Kropotkin and Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.[2]

Kirkby died on 10 August 2006.[2]

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References

Footnotes
  1. "A Service with Smiles". East End Life. 10 March 1994. Cited in Ross 2016, p. 273.
  2. Leech, Kenneth (22 August 2006). "Father Gresham Kirkby". The Guardian. London. p. 31. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  3. Garnett & Keith 2014, p. 168.
  4. Leech, Kenneth. Church Times. London. Cited in Ross 2016, p. 278.
  5. "A Church Fit for a New Millennium". East End Life. 28 August 2006. Cited in Ross 2016, pp. 277–278.
  6. "Bow Clergyman's Silver Jubilee". East London Advertiser. 1968. Cited in Ross 2016, p. 269.
  7. Harwood 1998, p. 69; Ross 2016, p. 267.
  8. "Bow Vicar Quits". Cited in Ross 2016, p. 273.

Bibliography
Garnett, Jane; Keith, Michael (2014). "Interrogating Diaspora: Beyond the Ethnic Mosaic – Faith, Space, and Time in London's East End". In Gilman, Sander L. (ed.). Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Collaboration and Conflict in the Age of Diaspora. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. pp. 165–175. ISBN 978-988-8208-27-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Harwood, Elain (1998). "Liturgy and Architecture: The Development of the Centralised Eucharistic Space". Twentieth Century Architecture (3): 50–74. ISSN 2054-3263. JSTOR 41859542.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Ross, Duncan (2016). Detailed History of St Pauls', Bow Common. London: St Pauls', Bow Common. Retrieved 10 January 2019.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Further reading
Leech, Kenneth (2009). Father Gresham Kirkby, 1916–2006: Priest of the Kingdom of God; A Personal Memoir. London: Anglo-Catholic History Society. OCLC 693944918.


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