Anglican bishop, the third Bishop of Middleton
St Simon's, Southsea Arthur Fawssett Alston (30 December 1872 – 20 February 1954)[ 1] Bishop of Middleton (a suffragan bishop in the Church of England Diocese of Manchester ) from 1938 until 1943.[ 2]
Born at Sandgate, Kent , the third son of William Evelyn Alston, an army medic [ 3] [ 4] Sydney ,[ 1] Clare College, Cambridge (admitted 7 July 1891, matriculated that Michaelmas , graduated Bachelor of Arts {BA} 1894 and proceeded Cambridge Master of Arts {MA Cantab} 1898). He trained for the ministry at Ridley Hall , was ordained a deacon in 1896 and a priest in Peterborough in 1897.[ 3]
For eleven years following ordination, he served curacies : at St Katherine, Northampton (1896–1898); at Faringdon (1898–1905); and at St Simon's, Southsea (1905–1907). While in Farington, he married in 1900, and had three sons and two daughters[ 1] Rex Alston , became a famous cricket commentator . He then held three Yorkshire incumbencies for thirteen years in succession: Vicar of St Matthew's, Hull (1907–1915); of St George's , Leeds (1915–1917[ 3] [ 1] Bradford (1918–1920).[ 3]
Moving to Sussex in 1920, Alston became Rector of St Leonards-on-Sea , becoming additionally Rural Dean of Hastings in 1926 and Archdeacon of Hastings in 1928; he resigned the rectory and rural-deanery in 1929, remaining archdeacon.[ 1] Proctor in Convocation that year, serving until 1934;[ 3] Lancashire to become Bishop of Middleton and a Canon Residentiary of Manchester Cathedral , in which posts he remained until his retirement in 1943.[ 1] bishop on St Matthias ' day (24 February) 1938, by William Temple , Archbishop of York , at York Minster .[ 5]
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