Roy Sinker
Michael Roy Sinker (called Roy;[1] 28 September 1908 – 8 March 1994) was Archdeacon of Stow[2] from 1963[3] to 1967.[4]
Sinker was educated at Haileybury, Clare College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon. He was ordained in 1933.[5] After a curacy in Dalston he was Chaplain to the South African Church Railway Mission from 1935 to 1938. He then served at Bishop's Hatfield, Dalton-in-Furness, and Saffron Walden before his time as Archdeacon; and at St Matthew, Ipswich afterwards.[6]
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Saffron Walden Society of Change Ringers".
- ^ Hackthorn history
- ^ Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 31 January 1963; pg. 16; Issue 55613
- ^ Archdeacon Of Stow. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 19 April 1967; pg. 10; Issue 56919
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947-48 London: Oxford University Press, 1929
- ^ ‘SINKER, Rev. Canon Michael Roy’, 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 5 May 2017