Robert Fletcher (priest)

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Robert Crompton Fletcher, MA[https://archive.org/details/lancashirebiogra00lanc Lancashire : biographies, Rolls of Honour] (9 December 1850 – 27 February 1917’Deaths’ The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Feb 27, 1917; pg. 9; Issue 41413) was Archdeacon of Blackburn from 1901 to 1916.

He was born in Fremantle, Western Australia and educated at Heath Grammar School, Halifax where he was admitted in 1861, and at Rossall School’UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE’ The Standard (London, England), Friday, May 25, 1888; pg. 3; Issue 19929 and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and ordained in 1874. He was an Assistant Master at King William's College, Isle of Man then Curate of Tarleton. He became the Rector and Vicar’PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS’ The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent (Sheffield, England), Thursday, June 10, 1875; pg. 2; Issue 5951 of that parish in 1875Ecclesiastical Appointments.-Rev. Richard. The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jun 10, 1875; pg. 10; Issue 28338 and was in post"The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889 until 1908.[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53083 British History On-line] From then he was Rector of Chorley.[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=124-eraw&cid=-1#-1 National Archives]

He married firstly Nina Rawcliffe[http://www.rawcliffes.net/ft/famhist/rawcliffeprobate1900-1924.htm Family web-site] in 1878,[http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Euxton/parishchurch/marriages_1838-1900.html Lancashire parish Clerks )n-line] with whom he had eight children; and in 1909 Jessie Tyas née Knowles.‘FLETCHER, Ven. Robert Crompton’, 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/U196445, accessed 23 June 2013] He was an Alderman of Lancashire County Council from 1889;’LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL’ The Preston Guardian etc (Preston, England), Saturday, April 6, 1889; Issue 3965 and Surrogate of the Diocese of Manchester from 1888.

On his death he was buried in the churchyard of St Mary, Tarleton.