Chris Hawthorn
{{Short description|British Anglican priest (1936–2025)}}
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The Venerable Christopher John Hawthorn (29 April 1936 – 22 February 2025) was a British Anglican priest, who served as Archdeacon of Cleveland from 1991 to 2001.
Biography
Hawthorn was educated at Marlborough College, a Public school (i.e. independent boarding school) in Marlborough, Wiltshire.{{cite web |title=Hawthorn, Ven. Christopher John, (born 29 April 1936), Archdeacon of Cleveland, 1991–2001, now Archdeacon Emeritus |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U19536 |website=Who's Who 2023 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=2 March 2025 |language=en |date=1 December 2022}} He studied at Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1960, and then trained for ordination at Ripon College Cuddesdon from 1960 to 1962.{{Crockford| surname = Hawthorn | forenames = Christopher John | id = 39976 | accessed = 2 March 2025}}
He was ordained Deacon in 1962, and Priest.{{Crockford | forenames = Christopher John | surname = Wilcox | id = 39976 | accessed = 12 March 2017 }} After a curacy at Sutton-on-Hull he held incumbencies at St Nicholas, Hull (1966–1972); Christ Church, Coatham (1972–1979); and St Martin's-on-the-Hill, Scarborough (1979–1991). He was Rural Dean of Scarborough from 1982 to 1991; and a Canon of York from 1987 to 2001‘HAWTHORN, Ven. Christopher John’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, November 2016 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U19536, accessed 12 March 2017] He then served as Archdeacon of Cleveland from 1991Church news. New Archdeacon of Cleveland The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 18 December 1990; pg. 14; Issue 63892 until he retired in 2001.Church news. The Times (London, England), Monday, 13 August 2001; pg. 14; Issue 67216
Hawthorn died on 22 February 2025, at the age of 88.{{cite news |title=The Venerable Christopher John Hawthorn |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/births-marriages-and-deaths-march-8-2025-khntn38px |access-date=10 March 2025 |work=The Times |date=8 March 2025}}
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Category:People educated at Marlborough College
Category:Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge
Category:Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon
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