William Bree

William Bree, DD ( 19 November 1822 – 28 January 1917)[1] was Archdeacon of Coventry[2] from 1887[3] until 1908.[4]

The son of The Rev William Thomas Bree, MA, Rector of Allesley[5] he was educated at Bridgnorth Endowed School[6] and Merton College, Oxford.[7] He was ordained in 1848, and was curate at Polebrook until 1863, when he succeeded his father at Allesley.[8] He married firstly, in 1853, Mary Duke;[9] and, secondly, Sophy Adèle Biggs.[10] His great nephew, the actor James Bree, was patron of the benefice until his death in 2008.[11][12]

References
  1. "Death of Archdeacon Bree". Coventry Evening Telegraph (8077). 29 January 1917. p. 2. Retrieved 11 August 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. National Archives
  3. Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Thursday, 28 April 1887; pg. 15; Issue 32058.
  4. Ecclesiastical Intelligence. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 19 December 1907; pg. 9; Issue 38520
  5. In all 5 members of his family held the living from 1749 until Bree's death > News in Brief. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 30 January 1917; pg. 6; Issue 41389
  6. ‘BREE, Ven. William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2012 ; online edn, November 2012 accessed 20 January 2017
  7. s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Bree, William (2)
  8. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898 p162: London, Horace Cox, 1898
  9. Family web-site
  10. Family Search
  11. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/james-bree-actor-seen-in-on-her-majestys-secret-service-and-dr-who-1638459.html
  12. Parish Magazine
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Charles Holbech		 Archdeacon of Coventry
1887–1908		 Succeeded by
George Arbuthnot


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