Harry Blackburne

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Harry William Blackburne DSO,[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30450/supplements/18/page.pdf London Gazette] MC (25 January 1878 – 31 May 1963) was an Anglican clergyman, Dean of Bristol[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=109-aa_1-1_1-2&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 National Archives]Crockford's Clerical Directory1947/1948 Oxford, OUP, 1947 from 1934The Times, Saturday, 10 February 1934; pg. 12; Issue 46675; col C New Dean of Bristol Canon H. W. Blackburne Appointed to 1951."Who was Who"1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}

He was born on 25 January 1878 and educated at Tonbridge School and Clare College, Cambridge.{{acad|id=BLKN897H|name=Blackburne, Harry William}} After service as a trooper in the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry during the Second Boer War he was ordained in 1902.Crockfords (ibid) After a curacy at All Saints, Leamington[http://www.allsaintsleamington.org.uk/index.php Church web-site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100407190833/http://www.allsaintsleamington.org.uk/index.php |date=7 April 2010 }} he was an army Chaplain from 1903 to 1924. From 1924 to 1931 he was Vicar of St Mary, Ashford. An Honorary Chaplain to the King he was a Canon of St George's, Windsor until his appointment to the Deanery.[http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk:8080/Archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=(Code=='DS/UK/4310') National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives]{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} A noted author,Amongst others he wrote "This also happened on the Western Front, The Padre’s Story", 1932; "The Romance of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle", 1933; "Clergy in Wartime", 1939; and "A Thought for Sunday", 1942 > British Library web site accessed 21:18 GMT Saturday 16 January 2010 he died on 31 May 1963.

His brother Lionel Blackburne was Dean of Ely, one son Hugh a Bishop of Thetford and another, Kenneth, the first governor-general of Jamaica.

Personal papers belonging to Blackburne are held in the archives at The Museum of Army Chaplaincy.