The Venerable John Edward Stocks, MA”Multiple News Items” The Standard (London, England), Friday, 6 May 1870; pg. 3; Issue 14277 (28 August 1843 – 29 August 1926Deaths The Times(London, England), Saturday, 31 August 1929; pg. 13; Issue 45296) was Archdeacon of LeicesterUniversity of Leicester from 1899Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Thursday, 2 March 1899; pg. 10; Issue 35766 to 1920.Ecclesiastical News The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 27 October 1920; pg. 14; Issue 42552
Stocks was born in Leeds,‘STOCKS, Rev. John Edward’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007 accessed 28 September 2013 educated at Christ Church, Oxford.”UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE” The Leeds Mercury (Leeds, England), Tuesday, 17 December 1867; Issue 9260 and ordained in 1867.”GENERAL ORDINATIONS” The Morning Post (London, England), Monday, 23 December 1867; pg. 3; Issue 29339 He was Chaplain at his old college from 1867 to 1871. He was Vicar of Market Harborough”Market Harborough Parish Records” Stocks, J.E: London, Elliot Stock, 1882 from 1871 to 1884”Church News” The Newcastle Weekly Courant (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England), Friday, 14 November 1884; Issue 10948 and of St Saviour’s Church, Leicester from 1884 to 1902; Rural Dean of Gartree from 1884 to 1891 and of Leicester from 1891 to 1899. He was an Honorary Canon of Peterborough Cathedral from 1893”ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENTS” The Standard (London, England), Thursday, 9 February 1893; pg. 8; Issue 21404 to 1899; Rector of Misterton with Walcote from 1903 to 1914; and Prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation, Canterbury from 1913 to 1918.
Stocks had twelve children, including John Leofric Stocks, British philosopher and briefly Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool.‘Stocks, John Leofric’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec. 2007 accessed 14 February 2012
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