Charles_Peshall

Charles Peshall

Charles Peshall

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Charles John Eyre Peshall, CBE,[1] DSO,[2] KHC (1881–1957) was a Church of England priest and former Royal Navy chaplain.[3] He was Chaplain of the Fleet, director general of the Naval Chaplaincy Service and archdeacon for the Royal Navy from 1933 to 1935.[4]

Peshall was born in Oldberrow,[5] Warwickshire,[6] educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College[7] and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1904,[8] and priest in 1906.[9] After curacies at Atherstone and Tor Mohun he served as a naval chaplain[10] from 1908[11] to[12] 1935. He was also an Honorary Chaplain to the King from 1934[13] to 1935. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1935 New Year Honours.[14]

He died on 18 October 1957.[15]

Footnotes

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    "No. 34119". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 1934. pp. 1–18.
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    "Naval History". Archived from the original on 5 May 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
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    "Kingsnorth Airship Station: In Defence of the Nation" Bilbé,T p79: Stroud, The History Press 2013 ISBN 9780752491530
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    'PESHALL, Rev. Charles John Eyre', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 30 May 2017
  5. [5]
    Warwickshire Ancestors Project
  6. [6]
    Eyre History
  7. [7]
    "School web site". Archived from the original on 31 May 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  8. [8]
    Cambridge Independent Press Cambridgeshire, England 24 Jun 1904
  9. [9]
    Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p1010 Oxford, OUP, 1929
  10. [10]
    NLS
  11. [11]
    London Gazette 5 May 1908
  12. [12]
    'The Immortal Gamble and the part played in it by H.M.S. Cornwallis' Stewart,A.T p35 London, A & C Black, 1917
  13. [13]
    News in Brief. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 18 April 1934; pg. 16; Issue 46731
  14. [14]
    "No. 34119". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 1934. p. 8.
  15. [15]
    Rev. C. J. E. Peshall. The Times (London, England), Saturday, 19 October 1957; pg. 11; Issue 53976


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