Charles Peshall

Charles John Eyre Peshall, CBE,[1] DSO,[2] KHC (1881–1957) was a Church of England priest and former Royal Navy chaplain.[3] He was Chaplain of the Fleet, director general of the Naval Chaplaincy Service and archdeacon for the Royal Navy from 1933 to 1935.[4]

Peshall was born in Oldberrow,[5] Warwickshire,[6] educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College[7] and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1904,[8] and priest in 1906.[9] After curacies at Atherstone and Tor Mohun he served as a naval chaplain[10] from 1908[11] to[12] 1935. He was also an Honorary Chaplain to the King from 1934[13] to 1935. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1935 New Year Honours.[14]

He died on 18 October 1957.[15]

Footnotes
  1. "No. 34119". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 1934. pp. 1–18.
  2. "Naval History". Archived from the original on 5 May 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  3. "Kingsnorth Airship Station: In Defence of the Nation" Bilbé,T p79: Stroud, The History Press 2013 ISBN 9780752491530
  4. 'PESHALL, Rev. Charles John Eyre', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 30 May 2017
  5. Warwickshire Ancestors Project
  6. Eyre History
  7. "School web site". Archived from the original on 31 May 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  8. Cambridge Independent Press Cambridgeshire, England 24 Jun 1904
  9. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p1010 Oxford, OUP, 1929
  10. NLS
  11. London Gazette 5 May 1908
  12. 'The Immortal Gamble and the part played in it by H.M.S. Cornwallis' Stewart,A.T p35 London, A & C Black, 1917
  13. News in Brief. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 18 April 1934; pg. 16; Issue 46731
  14. "No. 34119". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 1934. p. 8.
  15. Rev. C. J. E. Peshall. The Times (London, England), Saturday, 19 October 1957; pg. 11; Issue 53976


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