John Lush (priest)

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John Arthur Lush (11 November 1881[1] – 8 September 1964[2]) was Archdeacon of Southland from 1933 until 1962.[3]

Lush was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge and ordained deacon in 1906 and priest in 1907. After curacies in West Hartlepool and Bishopwearmouth he was a Chaplain to the New Zealand Armed Forces from 1916[4] to 1918. He was Vicar of Havelock from 1911 to 1921 and then of St John, Invercargill until his appointment as Archdeacon.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Cricket Archive
  2. ^ Auckland Museum
  3. ^ Notes to Charles Spear Collected Poems, edited and with an afterword by Peter Simpson with images by Tony Lane University of Auckland, Holloway Press, 2007 ISBN 0958231370
  4. ^ The Evening Post (New Zealand), Volume XCI, Issue 122, 24 May 1916, Page 5
  5. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1959/60 p 727: Oxford, OUP, 1959