Ronald Huntley Sutch (5 March 1890 – 22 February 1975)Deaths. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Feb 25, 1975; pg. 26; Issue 59329 was Archdeacon of Cheltenham from 1951 to 1965.‘SUTCH, Ven. Ronald Huntley’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 11 April 2013
Sutch was educated at Batley Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford and ordained as a priest in 1915. After a curacy at Christ Church, Glasgow he was Rector of St Mungo, Alexandria”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark until 1917 when he became a Chaplain to the British Armed Forces. After World War I, he resigned his commission'Supplement to the London Gazette, 4 December 1918 (14399) and became Vicar of Ravensthorpe. Following further incumbencies in SlimbridgeCrockford's Clerical Directory, Oxford, OUP, 1948 p1271 and Cheltenham he became Rural Dean of Cirencester in 1941, a post he held until his appointment as Archdeacon in 1951.
Sutch married Elizabeth Lang Jones in 1916; they had two sons. He died on 22 February 1975. His grandson, David Sutch was installed as the Archdeacon of Gibraltar in July 2008.
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