About Charles Tonks
Lived 1881 – 1957 (aged 75). Charles Tonks was a priest.
Charles Frederick Tonks MBE (28 September 188127 March 1957) was an Anglican priest. He was the Archdeacon of Croydon from 1948 to 1957.
Tonks was educated at King's College London and ordained in 1909. After a curacy at St Luke's Hackney he was the Secretary of the Church of England Temperance Society. He was Rector of St George's with St Mary Magdalene's Canterbury then Rural Dean of Canterbury. He was then Vicar of Walmer from 1928 to 1947 and an officiating chaplain to the British Armed Forces during World War II.
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Who was Charles Tonks?
Archdeacon of Croydon (1881-1957)
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Charles Tonks was born on 28 September 1881.
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Charles Tonks died on 27 March 1957.
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Charles Tonks was a priest.
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