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Hugh Back

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Hugh Cairns Alexander Back (20 August 1863 – 27 December 1928) was Archdeacon of Warwick[1] from 1923 until his death.[2]

Back was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge[3] and ordained Deacon in 1887; and Priest in 1888.[4] His began his career with curacies at Ulverston and Kidderminster. He was Rector of Brandiston from 1892 to 1897; Vicar of Rostherne from 1897 to 1903; Rector of Berkswell from 1903 to[5] 1924; and Rector of Hampton Lucy from 1924 until his death.[6]

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    "Visitation of England and Wales" Jackson,H.J;Crisp,F.A: London, College of Arms, 1893
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    Obituary: The Archdeacon Of Warwick. The Times (London, England), Friday, 28 December 1928; pg. 17; Issue 45086
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    Venn, John & Venn, John Archibald. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Cambridge University Press Part II vol. ii p108
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    Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898: London, Horace Cox, 1898 p 51
  5. [5]
    Solihull Life
  6. [6]
    ‘BACK, Ven. Hugh Cairns Alexander’, 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 17 January 2017
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