Frank McGowan (priest)

The Ven. Frank McGowan, MBE, MA was an Anglican priest: the Archdeacon of Sarum from 1951 until his death on 21 February 1968. Born on 7 October 1895, he was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. After World War I service with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment and later the Machine Gun Corps wounded in action he was discharged and awarded a British War Medal, Allied Victory Medal and Discharge badge No 366001. He was ordained in 1923. He was a curate at St Michael and All Angels, Bournemouth before serving incumbencies at St Mark’s, Birmingham and then St Nicholas, Cholderton until his archdeacon’s appointment.