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The Ven. Kenneth Unwin (16 September 1926 - 27 December 2020) was Archdeacon of Pontefract from 1981 until 1992.

Unwin was born in Chesterfield and educated at Chesterfield Grammar School; St Edmund Hall, Oxford; and Ely Theological College. He was ordained deacon in 1951 and priest in 1952. After a curacy at All Saints, Leeds (1951–55), he was Priest in charge of St John's, Neville's Cross (1955–59). He was Vicar of St John the Baptist, Dodworth from 1959 to 1969; St John the Baptist, Royston from 1969 to 1973; and of St John, Wakefield from 1973 to 1982.

He was married to Beryl, and had four daughters and a son. He died in 2020, aged 94.

References

1. Bizstatz
2. "Kenneth Unwin". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
3. Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th Edition, p 979.
4. ‘UNWIN, Ven. Kenneth’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, November 2016 accessed 28 July 2017
5. "Church Times: "Obituary: The Ven Kenneth Unwin", 29 January 2021". Retrieved 20 January 2021.
6. "Church Times: Deaths, 8 January 2021". Retrieved 10 January 2021.

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