William_Uthwatt

William Uthwatt

William Uthwatt

Add article description

William Andrewes Uthwatt (1882 – 4 December 1952)[1] was a priest of the Church of England.[2] He was the Archdeacon of Huntingdon from 1943 to 1947.[3][4]

St Mary's Portsea

Life

Andrewes Uthwatt was born in Ballarat, the son of Thomas Andrewes, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.[5][6] He was ordained in 1904 and was a curate at St Mary's Portsea. Later he was Archdeacon of Northern Melanesia and then a temporary chaplain to the British Armed Forces during World War I.[7] When peace returned he was a curate at Southwell Minster and then held incumbencies in Derby, Bottisham, Brampton and finally Diddington.[8]

Augustus Uthwatt, Baron Uthwatt, his brother, was a prominent judge.

References

  1. [1]
    The Times, 24 June 1952, p8, "The Ven. W. A. Uthwatt"
  2. [2]
    London Gazette, 24 August 1920
  3. [3]
    Cambridgeshire archives
  4. [4]
    National Archives
  5. [5]
    "Andrewes-Uthwatt, William (ANDS900W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  6. [6]
    Who was Who 1897-2007, London, A & C Black, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  7. [7]
    Great War Forums
  8. [8]
    Crockford's Clerical Directory Oxford, OUP, 1948


This article about a Church of England archdeacon in the Province of Canterbury is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article William_Uthwatt, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.