Charles Peshall

{{Short description|Church of England priest and Royal Navy chaplain}}

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{{Portal|Christianity}}Charles John Eyre Peshall, CBE,{{London Gazette |issue=34119 |supp=y |pages=1–18 |date= 28 December 1934}} DSO,{{Cite web |url=http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishLGDecorations1918a.htm |title=Naval History |access-date=30 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505135927/http://naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishLGDecorations1918a.htm |archive-date=5 May 2012 |url-status=dead }} KHC (1881–1957) was a Church of England priest and former Royal Navy chaplain."Kingsnorth Airship Station: In Defence of the Nation" Bilbé, T p79: Stroud, The History Press 2013 {{ISBN|9780752491530}} He was Chaplain of the Fleet, director general of the Naval Chaplaincy Service and archdeacon for the Royal Navy from 1933 to 1935.'PESHALL, Rev. Charles John Eyre', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U241752, accessed 30 May 2017]

Peshall was born in Oldberrow,[http://www.hunimex.net/warwick/freecens/2480.html Warwickshire Ancestors Project] Warwickshire,[http://www.eyrehistory.net/eyrecourt_and_eyreville/ind5630.php Eyre History] educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College{{Cite web |url=https://www.haileybury.com/medals/orders_of_chivalry%201862%20h.htm |title=School web site |access-date=30 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531221414/http://www.haileybury.com/medals/orders_of_chivalry%201862%20h.htm |archive-date=31 May 2012 |url-status=dead }} and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1904,Cambridge Independent Press Cambridgeshire, England 24 Jun 1904 and priest in 1906.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p1010 Oxford, OUP, 1929 After curacies at Atherstone and Tor Mohun he served as a naval chaplain[http://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/pageturner.cfm?id=94466612&mode=transcription NLS] from 1908[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28134/page/3314/data.pdf London Gazette 5 May 1908] to'The Immortal Gamble and the part played in it by H.M.S. Cornwallis' Stewart, A.T p35 London, A & C Black, 1917 1935. He was also an Honorary Chaplain to the King from 1934News in Brief. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 18 April 1934; pg. 16; Issue 46731 to 1935. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1935 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=34119|supp=y|page=8|date=28 December 1934}}

He died on 18 October 1957.Rev. C. J. E. Peshall. The Times (London, England), Saturday, 19 October 1957; pg. 11; Issue 53976

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