William Okes Parish (26 June 1859 – 7 April 1940) was an Anglican cleric who was Archdeacon of Dorset from 1929 to 1936.
[1] Parish was born in Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire,[2] into an ecclesiastical family, the elder son of The Reverend William Samuel Parish, MA, Fellow of Peterhouse[3] He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge[4] and ordained in 1884.
[5] He was Vicar of Longfleet from 1886[6] to[7] 1929; Rural Dean of Poole from 1893[8] to 1929; and a Canon Residentiary of Salisbury Cathedral from 1929 to 1936.
[9] He was also a Chaplain to the Dorset Regiment.
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