Hugh Norton

Hugh Ross Norton OBE (born Marylebone,[1] 3 April 1890 – died Bury St Edmunds, 10 January 1969) was Archdeacon of Sudbury[2] from 1945 to 1962.

Norton was educated at Monkton Combe School and Wadham College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1914 [3] and served curacies in Whitechapel, Stepney and Tottenham;[4] also acting as a wartime Chaplain to the Forces in the Middle East. He was Precentor of Wakefield Cathedral from 1921 to 1924; and again a Chaplain to the Forces from 1924 until 1945[5] when he took up his Archdeacon’s appointment. He was Rector of Horringer from 1945 to 1958; and then a Canon Residentiary of St Edmundsbury Cathedral from 1958 until 1964: there is a memorial to him in the Cathedral.[6] He was Archdeacon Emeritus of Sudbury from 1962 until his death.

References
  1. the.Peerage.com
  2. NPG details
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
  4. ‘NORTON, Ven. Hugh Ross’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 4 March 2013
  5. London Gazette
  6. Find a grave
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Maxwell Homfray Maxwell-Gumbleton		 Archdeacon of Sudbury
1945–1962		 Succeeded by
Harry Douglas Barton


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