Charles Symes Leslie AlfordAlford Association (7 February 1885 – 16 May 1963) was Archdeacon of Bristol from 1938 Ecclesiastical News. Church appointments The Times (London, England), Thursday, Feb 03, 1938; pg. 15; Issue 47909 to 1941.Ecclesiastical News. Archdeacon of Bristol The Times (London, England), Monday, Sep 01, 1941; pg. 6; Issue 49019.
Alford was born in Bristol and educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, during which time he was a member of its OTC.London Gazette He was ordained deacon in 1908Durham University Library and priest in 1909 .Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30 Oxford, OUP, 1929 p13 After a curacy in Barnard Castle he was with the Royal Army Chaplains' Department from 1910 to 1927. He was then Vicar of Marshfield until his Archdeacon’s appointment. In later years he was Rector of Staple Fitzpaine and then Rowberrow.‘ALFORD, Rev. Prebendary Charles Symes Leslie’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 27 April 2013 He died in Wincombe.
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