William Donne (priest)

William Donne (29 October 1845 – 5 March 1914)[1] was Archdeacon of Huddersfield from 1892[2] to 1913.

Baines was born into an ecclesiastical family[3] in Oswestry; educated at Wellington College and Brasenose College, Oxford; and ordained in 1876.

He was the Curate in charge of the Winchester College Mission from 1876 to 1881; and then held incumbencies at Limehouse, Great Yarmouth and Wakefield.

He was an Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria and then King Edward VII.

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