Harry Sydney Radcliffe (7 May 1867 – 6 October 1949) was Archdeacon of Lynn from 1926 to 1946; and as such he played a leading role in the removal of the Rector of Stiffkey in 1932.The Rector Of Stiffkey The Times (London, England), Monday, Jun 13, 1932; pg. 14; Issue 46158; Stiffkey Parish Church The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Jun 14, 1932; pg. 11; Issue 46159.; The Rector Of Stiffkey Bishop’s sentence of Deprivation The Times (London, England), Saturday, Oct 22, 1932; pg. 7; Issue 46271
The fourth son of Sir David Radcliffe,Art UK Lord Mayor of Liverpool from 1884 to 1886, he was born in that city thePeerage.com on 7 May 1867 and educated at its college.‘RADCLIFFE, Ven. Harry Sydney’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 29 July 2013 In 1884 he was commissioned as a volunteer officer into the Liverpool Rifles.London Gazette He graduated from Exeter College, Oxford in 1893 and was ordained after a period of study at Leeds Clergy School two years later. Radcliffe began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Aspull.Crockford's Clerical Directory1929 p1060 After this he was Rector of Gaywood, NorfolkBere Regis.org from 1906 to 1946; and Rural Dean of Lynn from 1918 to 1926.
An authority on Norfolk Church plate,Church Care he died at Fakenham on 6 October 1949.Obituary The Times (London, England), Saturday, Oct 08, 1949; pg. 7; Issue 51507
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