Ken Unwin

{{Short description|Archdeacon of Pontefract (1926–2020)}}

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{{Portal|Christianity}}The Ven. Kenneth Unwin[http://www.bizstats.co.uk/ltd/wakefield-diocesan-church-organization-societythe-00040594/ Bizstatz] (16 September 1926 - 27 December 2020) was Archdeacon of Pontefract from 1981 until 1992.{{Crockford

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Unwin was born in Chesterfield and educated at Chesterfield Grammar School; St Edmund Hall, Oxford; and Ely Theological College. He was ordained deacon in 1951 and priest in 1952.Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th Edition, p 979. After a curacy at All Saints, Leeds (1951–55), he was Priest in charge of St John's, Neville's Cross (1955–59). He was Vicar of St John the Baptist, Dodworth from 1959 to 1969; St John the Baptist, Royston from 1969 to 1973; and of St John, Wakefield from 1973 to 1982.‘UNWIN, Ven. Kenneth’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, November 2016 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U38372, accessed 28 July 2017]

He was married to Beryl, and had four daughters and a son.{{Cite web|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2021/29-january/gazette/obituaries/obituary-the-ven-kenneth-unwin|title=Church Times: "Obituary: The Ven Kenneth Unwin", 29 January 2021|access-date=20 January 2021}} He died in 2020, aged 94.{{Cite web|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2021/8-january/gazette/deaths/deaths|title=Church Times: Deaths, 8 January 2021|access-date=10 January 2021}}