Walter Wardle

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Walter Thomas Wardle (born Southsea 22 July 1900; died 12 February 1982) was Archdeacon of Gloucester from 1949 until his death.

Wardle was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford; and Ripon College Cuddesdon. He was ordained Deacon in 1926; and Priest in 1927.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30 p1356 London: Oxford University Press, 1929 After a curacy at Weeke he was an SPG Chaplain at Montana, Switzerland He was Rector of Wolferton with Babingley from 1929 to 1938; Vicar of Great Barrington and Little Barrington with Taynton, 1938 to 1943; and Vicar of Charlton Kings from 1943 to 1948 when he became a Canon Residentiary at Gloucester Cathedral, a post he held for the rest of his life.‘WARDLE, Ven. Walter Thomas’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U170162, accessed 29 Jan 2017]

Wardle was a Freemason, and a member of the Apollo University Lodge, Oxford, under the United Grand Lodge of England.{{cite book |title=Oxford Freemasons: A Social History of Apollo University Lodge |last1= Crook|first1= Prof. Joe Mordaunt|last2= Daniel|first2= Dr. James Wallace|edition=First |location= Oxford|publisher=Bodleian Library, University of Oxford |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-85124-467-6}}{{rp|139}}