William Okes Parish (26 June 1859 – 7 April 1940) was an Anglican cleric who was Archdeacon of Dorset from 1929 to 1936."Obituaries." Crockford's Clerical Directory 1940-41 Oxford, OUP, 1941
Parish was born in Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire,1911 England Census into an ecclesiastical family, the elder son of The Reverend William Samuel Parish, MA, Fellow of Peterhouse‘PARISH, Ven. William Okes’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 23 Nov 2012 He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge"University Intelligence MA awards" (Cambridge) The Times (London, England), Friday, May 29, 1885; pg. 7; Issue 31459 and ordained in 1884."Ordinations (Lincoln)" Nottinghamshire Guardian (London, England), Friday, June 13, 1884; pg. 5; Issue 2038 He was Vicar of Longfleet from 1886"Ecclesiastical Appointments." The Times (London, England), Friday, Jan 29, 1886; pg. 11; Issue 31669. toNational Archives 1929; Rural Dean of Poole from 1893"Ecclesiastical Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jun 22, 1893; pg. 9; Issue 33984 to 1929; and a Canon Residentiary of Salisbury Cathedral from 1929 to 1936."Canon W.O. Parish." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Apr 09, 1940; pg. 10; Issue 48585 He was also a Chaplain to the Dorset Regiment.London Gazette July 23rd 1909
He died on 7 April 1940."Deaths." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, April 9, 1940; pg. 1; Issue 48585
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