Alexander Cory

Born into an ecclesiastical family on 19 March 1890,[1] he was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, Keble College, Oxford and Ripon College Cuddesdon he was ordained in 1914.

[2] After a curacy at Portsea he was a World War I temporary Chaplain to the Forces.

He was Rector of Burton Overy from 1919 to 1923 and then Vicar of St Mary's, Far Cotton until 1928.

Moving to the Isle of Wight he was Vicar of All Saints, Ryde[3] from 1946 to 1952 when he became Archdeacon of the whole island[4] He died on 7 April 1973[5]

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