James Hay Upcher (b WreninghamNetwork South Norfolk 17 January 1854 – d Harare 17 March 1931)Archdeacon J. H. Upcher. The Times (London, England), Monday, Mar 23, 1931; pg. 14; Issue 45778 was Archdeacon of Mashonalandcore.ac from 1925 until his death."In Memoriam James Hay Upcher, Archdeacon of Mashonaland, Diocese of Southern Rhodesia" by his niece Miss Olga Ward, 1931
Upcher was educated at Trinity College, CambridgeAlumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. vi. Square – Zupitza, (1954) p268 was ordained deacon in 1877The Bury and Norwich Post, and Suffolk Herald (Bury Saint Edmunds, England), Tuesday, February 27, 1877; pg. 7; Issue 4940 and Priest in 1878.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30 p1321 London: Oxford University Press, 1929 After curacies in Halesworth, Sudbourne, Barnham Broom and Bury St Edmunds he held incumbencies at Sprowston,FAREWELL OF THE REV. J. HAY UPCHER. 'The Bury and Norwich Post, and Suffolk Standard' (Bury Saint Edmunds, England), Tuesday, November 06, 1888; pg. 8; Issue 5533 and Sculthorpe.ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton, England), Saturday, May 11, 1889; pg. 2; Issue 4478 He was a missionary at St Bernard's Mission, Selukwe from 1923 to 1925;"Maronda Mashanu: The History Of A Community" Steele, M p19: 2017 and Priest in charge of St Mary, Hunyani from 1927 until his death.
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