Richard Burne
British Archdeacon
About Richard Burne
Lived 1882 – 1970 (aged 87). Richard Burne was a chaplain.
Richard Vernon Higgins Burne FSA (19 March 1882 – 9 March 1970) was Archdeacon of Chester from 1937 to 1965.
Burne was educated at Malvern College, Keble College, Oxford and Ripon College Cuddesdon. After a curacy in Slough he became chaplain to the Charles Ferguson-Davie, the Bishop of Singapore, in 1913. During World War I he was a chaplain to the British Armed Forces. After the war he was a tutor at the Ordination Test School, Knutsford; and then its principal from 1923 until his archdeacon’s appointment.
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British Archdeacon (1882–1970)
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Richard Burne was born on 19 March 1882.
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Richard Burne died on 9 March 1970.
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Richard Burne was a chaplain.
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