Charles James Stranks (10 May 1901 – 30 August 1981)[1] was a British Anglican priest[2] and author.
[3] Stranks was born in Buckinghamshire,[4] educated at Durham University[5] and St Boniface College, Warminster; and ordained in 1926.
After a curacy in Leeds he was a missionary in Japan from 1928 to 1940.
He was the Vicar of Morecambe from 1941 to 1947; Warden of Whalley Abbey from 1947[6] from 1947 to 1953; a Canon at Durham University from 1954; and Archdeacon of Auckland from 1958 to 1973.
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