George Hardwicke Spooner (10 December 1851 – 7 February 1933) was an Anglican priest and author in the first half of the Twentieth century.
Spooner was educated at the King's School, Worcester and Pembroke College, Oxford and ordained in 1874.ORDINATION AT CHESTER CATHEDRAL Cheshire Observer (Chester, England), Saturday, 26 December 1874; pg. 6; Issue 1168 After a curacy at All Saints, Liverpool he was Superintendent of the Liverpool Church of England Scripture Readers Society from 1876 to 1879. He held incumbencies at Litherland, Much Woolton and Walton-on-the-Hill; and was Rural Dean of Childwall from 1885 to 1906; Archdeacon of Warrington from 1906 to 1916;Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 London, OUP, 1929 and Archdeacon of Liverpool from 1916 until his death aged 82.‘SPOONER, Ven. George Hardwicke’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 23 June 2015
Amongst other books he wrote The Ethics of Sunday School Work, 1886; Inspiration, 1891; A Word with You, 1894; Intercessory Services, 1899; and Hymns for the South African War, 1902.British Library web site accessed 13:16 GMT Tuesday 23 June 2015 His son Reggie Spooner was a noted cricketer.
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