Ernest Stroud

{{Short description|Cleric of the Church of England (1931–2014)}}

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Ernest Charles Frederick Stroud[http://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/00262795 Open Corporates] (20 May 1931 – 18 June 2014) was an English Anglican clergyman who was Archdeacon of Colchester from 1983 to 1997.‘STROUD, Ven. Ernest Charles Frederick’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U36564, accessed 21 Nov 2013]

Stroud was educated at Merrywood Grammar School and Durham University. and ordained in 1961. He worked for Esso before ordination in 1961. After a curacy in South Kirkby he was Priest in charge at St Ninian, Whitby. He was Vicar of All Saints, Chelmsford then of St Margaret of Antioch, Leigh on SeaCrockford's Clerical Directory 1980-1982 p978 Oxford, OUP 1980 {{ISBN|0192000101}} before his years as an Archdeacon. Stroud died on 18 June 2014, at the age of 83.{{cite web |title=Stroud, Ven. Ernest Charles Frederick |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-36564?rskey=JgRW4n&result=1 |website=WHO WAS WHO 2024 |access-date=18 December 2023}}