Edward BarberPhoto of Barber (born Brighouse, 19 September 1841 – died Chester, 23 July 1914) was Archdeacon of ChesterNational Archives from 1886THE NEW DEAN OF CHESTER.The Star (Saint Peter Port, England), Thursday, January 28, 1886; Issue 103 until his death.Archdeacon Barber The Times (London, England), Friday, Jul 24, 1914; pg. 10; Issue 40584
Born into an ecclesiastical family,His father was the Rev. Thomas Evetts, sometime Rector of Monks Risborough > ‘BARBER, Ven. Edward’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 25 March 2013 Barber was educated at St Peter's School, York, and Magdalen College, Oxford. Ordained in 1865, he was an Assistant Master at St Peter's College, Radley, then an Inspector of Schools in the Diocese of Oxford from 1872 and 1983; Rector of Chalfont St Giles from 1883 to 1986; and a Canon Residentiary of Chester Cathedral from then on.
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