Charles Boucher (priest)
Charles Estcourt Boucher | |
|---|---|
| Archdeacon of Loughborough | |
| In office 1920–1921 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 June 1856 |
| Died | 24 February 1940 |
| Spouse | Louisa Mary née Wright |
The Venerable Charles Estcourt Boucher (1856–1940) [1] was an eminent Anglican priest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[2][3]
Boucher was born on 8 June 1856 at Cheddleton and educated at Uppingham[4] and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[5]
He was ordained in 1879 and began his career as Curate at Northam, Devon[6] after which he was Rector of Frolesworth, Lutterworth[7] and Master of Chief Baron Smith's Almshouses from 1886 to 1923. An Honorary Canon of Peterborough from 1912 until 1937, he became the first Archdeacon of Loughborough in 1921.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941 Obituaries section
- ^ London Gazette
- ^ “Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
- ^ Cricket Archive
- ^ "Boucher, Charles [Estcourt] (BCR875CE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Genuki
- ^ Blains
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