About Charles Cockbill
Lived 1888 – 1965 (aged 77). Charles Cockbill was an incumbent, chief executive officer, canon and curate.
Charles Shipley Cockbill , MA (27 January 188813 March 1965) was the Archdeacon of St Albans in the Church of England from 1951 until 1962.
Cockbill was educated at Bristol Grammar School and St John's College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1911 and began his career with curacies at St John's, Bridgwater and Holy Trinity, Eltham. He held incumbencies at All Saints, Oakhill, Holy Trinity, Bath and St John the Evangelist, Digswell. He was diocesan director of religious education for the Diocese of St Albans from 1935 to 1948; and a canon residentiary of its cathedral from 1942 to 1958.
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British Archdeacon
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Charles Cockbill was born on 27 January 1888.
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Charles Cockbill died on 13 March 1965.
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Charles Cockbill was an incumbent, chief executive officer, canon and curate.
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