Robert Fletcher

Religious Leader

1850 – 1917

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Who was Robert Fletcher?

Robert Crompton Fletcher, MA was Archdeacon of Blackburn from 1901 to 1916.

He was born in Fremantle, Western Australia and educated at Rossall School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and ordained in 1874. He was an Assistant Master at King William’s College, Isle of Man then Curate of Tarleton. He became the Rector and Vicar of that parish in 1875 and was in post until 1908. From then he was Rector of Chorley.

He married firstly Helen Rawcliffe in 1878, with whom he had five children; and in 1909 Jessie Tyas née Knowles He was an Alderman of Lancashire County Council from 1889; and Surrogate of the Diocese of Manchester from 1888.

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Born
Dec 9, 1850
Fremantle
Nationality
  • England
Profession
Died
Feb 27, 1917

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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