Vyvyan Donnithorne
The Venerable Vyvyan Henry Donnithorne, MC, MA (8 January 1886 – 12 December 1968) was Archdeacon of Western Szechwan from 1935 to 1949.
Donnithorne was educated at Christ's Hospital; Clare College, Cambridge and Ridley Hall, Cambridge.[1] After wartime service[2] in the Hampshire Regiment[3] he was ordained in 1919. He was a missionary in China[4] from 1920 to 1949. He was a chaplain in the Canary Islands from 1949 to 1953.[5] In retirement, he lived in Hong Kong.[6]
He was the father of Audrey Donnithorne.
Notes
- ^ ‘DONNITHORNE, Rev. Vyvyan Henry’, 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 6 July 2017
- ^ National Archives
- ^ National Archives
- ^ Mission Studies
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1938 p2011: Oxford, OUP, 1938
- ^ GWULO
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