Laurence Frederick Devaynes Blair (1868–1925) Bishop Blair The Times(London, England), Friday, Nov 20, 1925; pg. 17; Issue 44124 was an Anglican priest:"The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Kelly’s, 1913 a missionary bishop in South AmericaFalklands Info in the first half of the twentieth century.“The churchman's missionary atlas” London, Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1912
He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge‘BLAIR, Rt. Rev. Laurence Frederick Devayne’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 31 Aug 2012 and ordained in 1892. He was Curate of Portman Chapel from 1892 to 1895 when he became Rector of Chedgrave.ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENTS The Standard (London, England), Friday, November 08, 1895; pg. 8; Issue 22263. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II. He was Chaplain at Bellary then an Army Chaplain. He was with the Church Parochial Mission Society, from 1906 to 1910 when he became Bishop of the Falkland Islands.Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times(London, England), Monday, Jan 17, 1910; pg. 19; Issue 39171
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