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Name: LEACH, Robert (Rev.)
Birth Date: 23 June 1881
Death Date: 24 March 1966 Crediton
First Date: 1923
Last Date: 1926
Profession: CMS
Area: Mombasa
Book Reference: Red 25
School: Magdalene Coll. Cambridge
General Information:
Red 25 - First Chaplain of the Mombasa Seamen's Institute, CMS
Cambridge Univ. Alumni pens. at MAGDALENE, Feb. 17, 1900. S. of the Rev. Thomas (1867), V. of Burton-in-Lonsdale. B. June 23, 1881. Schools, Appleby and Rossall. Matric. Michs. 1900; B.A. 1904. Ord. deacon (Durham) 1906; priest (Exeter) 1908; C. of the Ven. Bede's Church, Monkwearmouth, Durham, 1906-8. C. of St Mary's, Lynton, Devon, 1908-13. C. of Broad Clyst, 1913-14. C. of South Molton, 1914-19. Assistant Chaplain, Mission to Seamen, at Barry, 1919-21; at Rosyth, 1921-2; at Durban, 1922-3; at Mombasa, 1923-6. R. of Bondleigh with Brushford, Devon, 1927-35. R. of Woolfardisworthy E. with Kennerleigh, 1935-48-. (Rossall Sch. Reg.; Crockford; Fox-Davies, Armorial Families.)
1939 England and Wales Register living in Crediton (no wife) as Clerk in Holy Orders