John Delight
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The Venerable John David Delight (24 August 1925 - 16 February 2013) was a British clergyman who served as Archdeacon of Stoke from 1982 to 1990.[http://aldridgeparishchurch.org/apcevents2013/JohnDelight/jd.htm Aldridge Parish Church]
Early life and education
Delight was educated at Christ's Hospital,[https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/the-ven-john-delight-3zd57tknq6x The Times] the University of Liverpool, Oak Hill Theological College, the Open University (BA Theology 1955) and Ripon Hall, Oxford.‘EDE, Ven. Dennis’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
Career
After wartime service in the RNVR he served curacies at Tooting Graveney and Wallington. He was then:
- Travelling Secretary of the Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Students from 1958 to 1961
- Curate-in-Charge (Vicar from 1968) at St Christopher, Leicester from 1961 to 1969
- Chaplain of HM Prison Leicester from 1962 to 1967
- Rector of Aldridge from 1969 to 1982
- Rural Dean of Walsall from 1981 to 1982
- Prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral from 1980 to 1990
- Archdeacon of Stoke-on-Trent from 1982 to 1990
- Diocesan Director of Theological Education and Honorary Canon of All Souls' Cathedral, Machakos, Kenya from 1990 to 1994.‘DELIGHT, Ven. John David’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, April 2016 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U13424, accessed 4 Feb 2017][https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2013/22-february/gazette/deaths/deaths Church Times, deaths, 22 February 2013]
Death
Delight died in February 2013 at the age of 87.
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