Robert Devenish (Archdeacon of Lahore)

The Venerable Robert Cecil Sylvester Devenish (22 November 1888 – 23 August 1973) was Archdeacon of Lahore from 1934 to 1940.[1]

He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1913.[2] He was a Chaplain to the Forces from 1915 to 1919 and then a Chaplain with the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment. He was Rector of St Paul's Naval and Garrison Church, Esquimalt from 1941 to 1946; Chaplain of Upper Chine School from 1946 to 1951 and Assistant Priest of St Mary Abbots, Kensington from 1951 to 1959.

Notes

Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947-48 p352: Oxford, OUP, 1947
‘DEVENISH, Rev. Robert Cecil Silvester’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 19 April 2014

Archdeacons of Lahore
Walter Tribe Andrew Spens Henry Griffith Charles Gillmore Gerald Nicolls Edmund Warlow James Syme Hugh Wheeler Henry Carden Robert Devenish Mervyn Evers George Laurence Roy Beynon Laurence Woolmer Inayat Masih Khair ud-Din

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