Basil Snell

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The Ven. Basil Clark Snell (2 February 1907 – 12 June 1986)The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 17 June 1986; p. 18; Issue 62485. "Obituary – The Ven. B.C. Snell". was an eminent Anglican priest in the mid twentieth century.[https://archive.today/20120701133304/http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk:8080/Archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=NaviTree.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqItem=Ramsey/4-287/1965/81&dsqField=RefNo National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives]

Snell was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Queens' College, Cambridge.Who was Who 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}} He was ordained in 1933Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} and began his career with a curacy at St Kentigern's, Crosthwaite.”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689–2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark {{ISBN|0-567-08746-8}} After this he was Chaplain of Aldenham School and then Loretto School. During the war he was a Chaplain to the British Armed Forces.[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35236/supplements/4499/page.pdf London Gazette] He was Rector of Tattingstone from 1947 to 1955 when he became a Residentiary Canon of St Edmundsbury Cathedral. He was Archdeacon of Bedford from 1958 until 1962[http://www.stalbans.anglican.org/Information/The-Diocesan-Handbook/Section-A-Diocesan-History/A3-Archdeaconries/Archdeacons-of-Bedford Diocesan web site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120428204935/http://www.stalbans.anglican.org/Information/The-Diocesan-Handbook/Section-A-Diocesan-History/A3-Archdeaconries/Archdeacons-of-Bedford |date=28 April 2012 }} and of St Albans from then to 1973.