Harry Radcliffe

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Harry Sydney Radcliffe (7 May 1867 – 6 October 1949) was Archdeacon of Lynn from 1926 to 1946; and as such he played a leading role in the removal of the Rector of Stiffkey in 1932.The Rector Of Stiffkey The Times (London, England), Monday, Jun 13, 1932; pg. 14; Issue 46158; Stiffkey Parish Church The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Jun 14, 1932; pg. 11; Issue 46159.; The Rector Of Stiffkey Bishop’s sentence of Deprivation The Times (London, England), Saturday, Oct 22, 1932; pg. 7; Issue 46271

The fourth son of Sir David Radcliffe,[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sir-david-radcliffe-18341907-98395 Art UK] Lord Mayor of Liverpool from 1884 to 1886, he was born in that city[http://thepeerage.com/p34797.htm#i347966 thePeerage.com] on 7 May 1867 and educated at its college.‘RADCLIFFE, Ven. Harry Sydney’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Oct 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U230760, accessed 29 July 2013] In 1884 he was commissioned as a volunteer officer into the Liverpool Rifles.[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/25373/pages/3060/page.pdf London Gazette] He graduated from Exeter College, Oxford in 1893 and was ordained after a period of study at Leeds Clergy School two years later. Radcliffe began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Aspull.Crockford's Clerical Directory1929 p1060 After this he was Rector of Gaywood, Norfolk[http://www.bereregis.org/Docs/Parish%20Council/Parish%20Magazines/2010s/2010/Bere%20Regis%20Parish%20Magazine%20-%20October%202010.pdf Bere Regis.org] from 1906 to 1946; and Rural Dean of Lynn from 1918 to 1926.

An authority on Norfolk Church plate,[http://www.churchcare.co.uk/cathedrals/conservation/caring-conservation-of-artworks-and-historic-furnishings-cathedrals/plate Church Care] he died at Fakenham on 6 October 1949.Obituary The Times (London, England), Saturday, Oct 08, 1949; pg. 7; Issue 51507