Herbert Kirkpatrick

Who was Herbert Kirkpatrick?

The Ven Herbert Francis Kirkpatrick, MA was an eminent Anglican priest in the first half of the 20th century.

He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 31 July 1888 and educated at Marlborough and Jesus College, Cambridge. After curacies in Middlesbrough and Torquay he became Vicar of All Saints, Cambridge, a post he held until 1922. He was Principal of the Missionary College of SS Peter and Paul in Dorchester on Thames from then until 1947 when he was appointed Archdeacon of Ely. He retired in 1961 and died a decade later on 21 July 1971.