• Reference
    P96/28/1
  • Title
    Photographs of Rectors of Swineshead
  • Date free text
    1874-1934
  • Production date
    From: 1874 To: 1934
  • Scope and Content
    1) Rev. William Airy, 1845-1874, also Vicar of Keysoe. Died 29 August 1874. 2) Rev. James Thomas Hayes, 1874-1886. Later served at Hinckley and Leicester (St. Margaret), and in 1889 he became Bishop of Trinidad 3) Rev. Henry Matthews, 1886-1898. Formerly at Great Staughton. Buried at Swineshead 18 February 1898. 4) Rev. John Richards, 1898-1904. [copy of photograph supplied by Capt. J.H. Richards in 1936] 5) Rev. James Robert Greenwood Lansdale, 1904-1915. Taken in the Rectory garden with the church in the background. 6) Rev. Robert Phillips, 1915-1917 7) Rev. Walter Copleston Furneaux, 1918-1926 8) Rev. Charles Russell Canham, 1927-1934 The names and dates have been checked in various editions of Crockford's Clerical Directory, from which further biographical information can be obtained.
  • PRINTS Z50/141/293-300 NEGS OF ALL PU202/83
  • Level of description
    file