Denis James was Archdeacon of Barnstaple from 1946 to 1958.
[1] James was born on 3 May 1895 and educated at Cirencester Grammar School.
He served in the Indian Army during World War I and was ordained after a period of study at Salisbury Theological College in 1923.
[2] He served curacies at Carisbrooke[3] in the Isle of Wight and Portsea, Portsmouth; and held incumbencies in Gosport and Retford before his years as an Archdeacon.
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