Walter Wardle
Archdeacon of Gloucester
About Walter Wardle
Lived 1900 – 1982 (aged 81).
Walter Thomas Wardle (born Southsea 22 July 1900; died 12 February 1982) was Archdeacon of Gloucester from 1949 until his death.
Wardle was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford; and Ripon College Cuddesdon. He was ordained Deacon in 1926; and Priest in 1927. After a curacy at Weeke he was an SPG Chaplain at Montana, Switzerland He was Rector of Wolferton with Babingley from 1929 to 1938; Vicar of Great Barrington and Little Barrington with Taynton, 1938 to 1943; and Vicar of Charlton Kings from 1943 to 1948 when he became a Canon Residentiary at Gloucester Cathedral, a post he held for the rest of his life.
Wardle was a Freemason, and a member of the Apollo University Lodge, Oxford, under the United Grand Lodge of England.
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Archdeacon of Gloucester (1900 - 1982)
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Walter Wardle was born on 22 July 1900.
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Walter Wardle died on 12 February 1982.
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