Mansel Harry Bates (4 August 1912 – 14 December 1980) was Archdeacon of Lindisfarne from 1970 until his death.[1]
Bates was educated at the Liverpool Institute[2] and Brasenose College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1936 after studying at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford; and began his ecclesiastical career as a curate at SS John and James, Litherland. After this he was Curate in Charge of Netherton[3] and then held incumbencies in [Everton, Liverpool|Everton] and was appointed vicar of St Lukes Crosby thenJesmond until his Archdeacon’s appointment.
References
edit- ^ Deaths The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Dec 16, 1980; pg. 24; Issue 60803
- ^ ‘BATES, Ven. Mansel Harry’’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 29 March 2013
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1959-60 Oxford, OUP,1959 p511
