Charles John Eyre Peshall , CBE ,[ 1] DSO ,[ 2] KHC (1881–1957) was a Church of England priest and former Royal Navy chaplain .[ 3] 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] Haileybury and Imperial Service College [ 7] Pembroke College, Cambridge . He was ordained deacon in 1904,[ 8] [ 9] Atherstone and Tor Mohun he served as a naval chaplain [ 10] [ 11] [ 12] Honorary Chaplain to the King from 1934[ 13] Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1935 New Year Honours .[ 14]
He died on 18 October 1957.[ 15]
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^ '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
^ Warwickshire Ancestors Project ^ Eyre History ^ "School web site" . Archived from the original on 31 May 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2017 .^ Cambridge Independent Press Cambridgeshire, England 24 Jun 1904
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p1010 Oxford, OUP, 1929^ NLS ^ London Gazette 5 May 1908 ^ 'The Immortal Gamble and the part played in it by H.M.S. Cornwallis' Stewart, A.T p35 London, A & C Black , 1917
^ News in Brief. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 18 April 1934; pg. 16; Issue 46731^ "No. 34119" . The London Gazette ^ Rev. C. J. E. Peshall. The Times (London, England), Saturday, 19 October 1957; pg. 11; Issue 53976
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