Cyril Morton (priest)

Cyril Evelyn Morton (1885 – 27 July 1932"Provost Morton", The Times, 28 July 1932, p18.) was an Anglican priest.Herry’s Archives

Educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Ripon College Cuddesdon, he was ordained in 1908"The Clergy List", London, Kelly’s, 1913 and began his ordained ministry with curacies in Hampstead and Roehampton. He was then an incumbent at Clifton On Dunsmore and Holy Trinity, Beauchamp Avenue, Leamington Spa. In 1929 he became Sub-Dean of the Coventry Cathedral and, in 1931, following a change in the law, the cathedral's first provost.The Times, 18 August 1931, p13, "Ecclesiastical News: Coventry Cathedral" He is buried in the churchyard at Lillington, Warwickshire.Tributes to the late Provost of Coventry, Leamington Spa Courier, 5 August 1932, p6.

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