Charles Johnston (priest)

Charles Francis Harding Johnston (b Barnstaple, 6 October 1842 -d Warrington 22 August 1925)[1] was Archdeacon of Bombay from 1888 until 1890.[2]

Johnston was educated at Barnstaple Grammar School and Christ's College, Cambridge; and ordained in 1867.[3] His first post after Graduation was with the Inland Revenue after which he was a master at Trinity College, Glenalmond from 1867 to 1868. Moving to India he was Chaplain of HEICS and Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Bombay before his time as Archdeacon[4] and Vicar of Headington Quarry[5] afterwards.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Deaths". The Times. London, England. 25 August 1925. p. 1.
  2. ^ ‘JOHNSTON, Ven. Charles Francis Harding’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 1 March 2015
  3. ^ "GENERAL ORDINATIONS". Morning Post. No. 29339. London, England. 23 December 1867. p. 3.
  4. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1908 p 776 London, Herbert Cox,1908
  5. ^ "ECCLESIASTICAL NEWS". Yorkshire Herald. No. 12631. York, England. 27 November 1891. p. 6.
  6. ^ "Vicars of the three older Headington parishes". Headington History. Retrieved 31 January 2021.


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