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Name: CARLISLE, George Blomfield (Rev. Canon)
Birth Date: 28 Nov 1882 Coddington, Cheshire
Death Date: 29 July 1957 St Albans
First Date: 1928
Last Date: 1933
Area: Box 647, Nairobi
Married: In Johannesburg 23 Apr 1919 Florence Joan Newkey-Burden b. 12 Sep 1900 Johannesburg, d. 27 Jan 1963 Penarth, Glamorgan
Children: Judith Ann (13 Nov 1922-2011); Penelope Mary (22 Apr 1920 Boksburg, S. Africa-2001); Elizabeth (1925)
Book Reference: Red 31, EA & Rhodesia, Benson, Foster
School: Taught at prep school by Rev. Canon Leakey, St. Peter's College Radley, Worcester College, Oxford
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 28/2/57 - The Rev Canon George Blomfield Carlisle, who has died in England, had worked in Rhodesia, East Africa, and the Union of South Africa, and was the first editor of the 'Kenya Church Review'. Latterly he had been vicar of Shenley, Hertfordshire. Born in 1882, he was educated at St. Peter's College, Radley, Worcester College Oxford, and Wells Theological College. After ordination he was for three years a curate in Worcester, and then, in 1910, he went to Krugersdorp, South Africa. Throughout the first world war he was rector of a parish in Southern Rhodesia and a chaplain to the forces, and for five years from 1928 he was vicar of St. Mark's, Nairobi. He returned to England to become vicar of Luton, whence he went to Shenley in 1944. He married a South African, Miss Joan Burden, of Johannesburg. One of their three daughters is on the staff of the CMS Girls' School at Gayaza, Uganda
Foster - He had been taught at a Preparatory School in England by Rev. Canon Leakey. He was the Vicar of St. Mark's Parklands - he was rather High Church.
1939 England and Wales Register living in Luton with wife