George Anson (priest)

George Henry Greville Anson (20 February 1820, in Marylebone – 9 February 1898, in Winchester[1]) was a clergyman and member of the Anson family. He was Rector of St James's, Birch-in-Rusholme and served as Archdeacon of Manchester from 30 May[2] 1870[3] to 1890.[4]

The son of Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet,[5] he was educated at Eton College [6] and Exeter College, Oxford[7] and ordained in 1843.[8] After a curacy at Leeds Parish Church[9] he was, for many years, the incumbent at St James,[10] Rusholme,[11] retiring from the posts of Rector, and Archdeacon of Manchester, in 1890.[4]

He married Augusta Agnes Hook on 27 June 1848.[12]

References

1. Deaths The Times (London, England), Thursday, Feb 10, 1898; pg. 1; Issue 35436
2. Mancuniensis
3. National Archives
4. "The New Archdeacon of Manchester". Manchester Faces and Places. II (1): 1. 10 October 1890.
5. Burke's Peerage 2003, page 110
6. ‘ANSON, Ven. George Henry Greville’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 24 June 2013
7. ‘UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE’ The Standard (London, England), Friday, January 27, 1843; Issue 5789
8. ‘ORDINATIONS’ The Morning Post (London, England), Friday, December 22, 1843; Issue 22758
9. Rusholme Archive
10. British History On-line
11. National Archives
12. ‘Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries The Bradford Observer; and Halifax, Huddersfield, and Keighley Reporter (Bradford, England), Thursday, July 06, 1848; pg. 5; Issue 735’