William Bree
William Bree ( 19 November 1822 – 28 January 1917)[1] was Archdeacon of Coventry[2] from 1887[3] until 1908.[4]
The son of The Rev William Thomas Bree, MA, Rector of Allesley[5] he was educated at Bridgnorth Endowed School[6] and Merton College, Oxford.[7] He was ordained in 1848, and was curate at Polebrook until 1863, when he succeeded his father at Allesley.[8] He married firstly, in 1853, Mary Duke;[9] and, secondly, Sophy Adèle Biggs.[10] His great nephew, the actor James Bree, was patron of the benefice until his death in 2008.[11][12]
References
- ^ "Death of Archdeacon Bree". Coventry Evening Telegraph. No. 8077. 29 January 1917. p. 2. Retrieved 11 August 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ National Archives
- ^ Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Thursday, 28 April 1887; pg. 15; Issue 32058.
- ^ Ecclesiastical Intelligence. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 19 December 1907; pg. 9; Issue 38520
- ^ In all 5 members of his family held the living from 1749 until Bree's death > News in Brief. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 30 January 1917; pg. 6; Issue 41389
- ^ ‘BREE, Ven. William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2012 ; online edn, November 2012 accessed 20 January 2017
- ^ s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Bree, William (2)
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898 p162: London, Horace Cox, 1898
- ^ Family web-site
- ^ Family Search
- ^ "James Bree: Actor seen in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' and 'Dr". Independent.co.uk. 6 March 2009.
- ^ Parish Magazine
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- Nicholas
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- William of Kilkenny
- John Kirkby
- Richard Brito (II)
- Robert Stafford
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- Humphrey de Hastanges
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- Robert Esple
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- Thomas Mills
- George Strangeways
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- Henry Comberford
- Thomas Lever
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- William Hinton
- Samuel Brooke
- Ralph Brownrigg
- Francis Walsall
- John Riland
- George Downing
- Lancelot Addison
- Richard Davies
- William Wilson
- Thomas Smallbrook
- Norman Fotheringham
- William Vyse
- Charles Buckeridge
- William Spooner
- John Sandford
- Charles Holbech
- William Bree
- George Arbuthnot
- Claude Blagden
- Joseph Hunkin
- Richard Brook
- Richard Howard
- Leonard Stanford
- Eric Buchan
- Peter Bridges
- Alan Morgan
- Ian Russell
- Mark Bryant
- Ian Watson
- John Green (Acting)
- John Green, "Archdeacon Pastor"
- Clive Hogger (Acting)
- Sue Field, "Archdeacon Pastor"
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