About Rev. John Moore Lester
Lived 1851 – 1919 (aged 68). Rev. John Moore Lester was an editor and priest.
John Moore Lester (4 September 1851 – 24 December 1919) was a British priest who served as Rector of Litchborough and Rural Dean of Lichfield. He was the son of Frederick Lester.
Early life Lester was born in Bombay in the Bombay Presidency, to Frederick Lester and Charlotte Pratt Fyvie, niece of the Baroness Bradford. He went to school at Rugby School and received an M.A from University College, Oxford. Lester also helped his friend, Chauncy Maples, Bishop of Likoma, with his biography.
On 26 May 1903 he was appointed vicar of Yarcombe in Devon. He was then appointed to the Rectory of St. Leonard's, Bridgnorth on Friday, 13 October 1905. and Edward Gabriel, MC (1887-1917), who married Cecile Colani and was father to Katherine Lester DeMille.
Lester's first wife died on 30 October 1896, he married Mary Julia Horton, daughter of Samuel Lewis Horton of Park House, Shifnal in 1898, her father was the grandson of the engraver Lewis Pingo. They had a further three children together,
Mary was the niece of Thomas Lowndes Bullock and cousin of Guy Henry Bullock and Sir Claud Severn. She died in 1947.
Lester died on 24 December 1919 at Rectory, Litchborough, Northamptonshire, England.
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Rector of Litchborough
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Rev. John Moore Lester was born on 4 September 1851 in Bengal Presidency, Bombay.
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