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Edwin Cook

Edwin Arthur Cook was Archdeacon of Bath from 1947 to 1962.

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Edwin Arthur Cook (9 July 1888 – 15 September 1972) was Archdeacon of Bath from 19471 to 1962.

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Cook was educated at Maidstone Grammar School, Queens' College, Cambridge and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. After a curacy at Holy Trinity, Margate he was a CMS Missionary in Western China until 1926.2 After that he held incumbencies in Dover, Margate and Folkestone.3 He was Rector of Bath Abbey from 1947 to 1960.

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  1. "Ecclesiastical News." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 25 March 1947; pg. 7; Issue 50718
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p265: Oxford, OUP, 1929
  3. 'COOK, Ven. Edwin Arthur', Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015; online edn, Nov 2015 accessed 9 Sept 2016