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Name
  
Charles Escreet

Died
  
March 3, 1919

Education
  
Tonbridge School


Charles Ernest Escreet (20 February 1852 - 3 March 1919) was an Anglican priest: the Archdeacon of Lewisham from 1906 to 1919.

Life

Escreet was educated at Tonbridge School and Wadham College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1875 and began his career with curacies at Barham and Battersea.

He was Vicar of St Andrew’s, Stockwell from 1882 to 1892; Rector of Woolwich from 1892 to 1909. Whilst he was there he helped create the Home for Mothers and Babies in Wood Street, Woolwich. It opened in May 1905 due to his efforts in assisting Alice Gregory, Leila Parnell and Maud Cashmere.

Escreet was the Vicar of the Church of the Ascension, Blackheath from 1909 to 1917.

References

Charles Escreet Wikipedia