Philip Crick

[5] His first ministry position was as a curate at St Mary's Church, Barnsley after which he was appointed Fellow[6] and then Dean of Clare College, Cambridge.

[7] He became an Army Chaplain with the Territorial Force in 1913, was in France on active service from 1915 to 1919, and ended the Great War as Deputy Assistant Chaplain-General to VI Corps.

[9] In 1921 Crick became one of the earliest First World War chaplains to be appointed to a bishopric, in the Diocese of Rockhampton in Australia.

[4] While in England in 1935, senior staff in his diocese of Ballarat wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury requesting Crick’s removal from his post.

[10] However, Crick died suddenly in 1937, and is buried at St Mary's, Funtington, West Sussex.

Crick's grave at Funtington