Foster Blackburne

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{{Portal|Christianity}} Foster Grey Blackburne, MA (Prestwich, 3 December 1838 – 1 February 1909[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/496/496034/496034.html Cricket Archive]) was Archdeacon of Manchester[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27856/pages/7810/page.pdf London Gazette] from 1905 until his death.‘The Archdeacon Of Manchester’ The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Feb 02, 1909; pg. 11; Issue 38872

He was educated at Marlborough and Brasenose College, Oxford‘UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE’ Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, December 7, 1861; Issue 5667 and ordained in 1863.’ORDINATION AT CHESTER CATHEDRAL’ Cheshire Observer and General Advertiser: for Cheshire and North Wales (Chester, England), Saturday, June 06, 1863; pg. 2; Issue 479 He began his ecclesiastical career with curacies in Bebbington and Chester. After this he was Rector of Nantwich“A history of the town and parish of Nantwich in the county palatine of Chester” Hall,J: Nantwich, T. Johnson, 1883 from 1872‘Ecclesiastical and Religious’ The Derby Mercury (Derby, England), Wednesday, March 20, 1872; Issue 8226 to 1894; and then of Bury[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53011 British History On-line] from 1894‘Ecclesiastical Intelligence’ The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Jan 17, 1894; pg. 6; Issue 34163 until his death.‘BLACKBURNE, Rev. Foster Grey’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U183805, accessed 23 June 2013]