Name Harry Blackburne Died May 31, 1963 | Role School chaplain | |
Books The Romance of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle | ||
The Very Rev Harry William Blackburne DSO, MC (25 January 1878 – 31 May 1963) was an Anglican clergyman, Dean of Bristol from 1934 to 1951.
He was born on 25 January 1878 and educated at Tonbridge School and Clare College, Cambridge.[6] After service as a trooper in the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry during the Boer War he was ordained in 1902.[7] After a curacy at All Saints, Leamington[8] he was an army Chaplain from 1903 to 1924. From 1924 to 1931 he was Vicar of St Mary, Ashford. An Honorary Chaplain to the King he was a Canon of St George’s, Windsor until his appointment to the Deanery.[9] A noted author,[10] he died on 31 May 1963.
His brother Lionel Edward Blackburne was Dean of Ely, one son Hugh a Bishop of Thetford and another, Kenneth, the first governor-general of Jamaica.
Personal papers belonging to Blackburne are held in the archives at The Museum of Army Chaplaincy.