Frank Crosse
Frank Parker Crosse MC[1] (24 October 1897 – 15 March 1979) was a British soldier and Church of England clergyman who became Dean of Grahamstown in South Africa, and was styled The Very Reverend Frank Crosse.
Life[edit]
Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,[2] early in the First World War Crosse was commissioned as a Second lieutenant into the South Staffordshire Regiment and in 1916 was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry.[3]
After the War he trained for the priesthood at Lincoln Theological College, was ordained deacon in 1923[4] and after a curacy in Bolsover he was vicar at Derry Hill, then at Branksome; and was later Rector of Barlborough[5] and Morton.[6] In 1934 he was appointed as Dean of Grahamstown Cathedral,[2][7][8] also becoming its Archdeacon and Rural Dean.
References[edit]
- ^ "Military Cross". Evening Despatch. Birmingham. 27 November 1916. p. 3 col B. Retrieved 3 September 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ a b Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1947-48 (Oxford, OUP, 1947), p. 299
- ^ "No. 29837". The London Gazette (Supplement). 24 November 1916. p. 11534.
- ^ "Diocese Of Southwell". Derby Daily Telegraph. 22 December 1923. Retrieved 3 September 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "New Rector Of Barlboro'". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. No. 7850. 10 November 1944. p. 1 col C. Retrieved 3 September 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Newsletter June 2011 (PDF), Morton Parish Council, 2011, p. 8, retrieved 3 September 2014
- ^ Charles Gould; Jeanette Eve (2011). Grahamstown Cathedral: A Guide and Short History. Eastern Cape Reprints. p. A:25. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ^ ‘CROSSE, Rev. Frank Parker’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 25 May 2014(subscription required)
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- 1897 births
- Deans of Grahamstown
- Archdeacons of Grahamstown
- 1979 deaths
- Recipients of the Military Cross
- Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
- Alumni of Lincoln Theological College
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