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Eric Herbert Evans (31 January 1902 – 25 December 1977) was the Archdeacon of Warrington from 1959 to 1970.

Life

Evans was educated at Liverpool Institute and Bishop Wilson Theological College, Isle of Man. He was ordained in 1930. After curacies in Liverpool and Southport, he was Chaplain at the Liverpool branch of the Mission to Seamen. He was vicar of Crossens, and then, during World War II, a Chaplain in the Royal Navy Reserve. He was vicar of Southport from 1946 to 1948; and then of Meols until his retirement.

Notes

  1. News in Brief. The Times (London, England), 5 December 1958; p. 6; Issue 54326
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1948 p 305: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1948
  3. "Navy list, December 1943, Volume 2". National Library of Scotland. p. 16. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  4. ‘EVANS, Ven. Eric Herbert’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014, accessed 2 August 2015
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