Louis Crooks

Louis Warden Crooks, OBE^[1] (1912–1989) was Archdeacon of Raphoe in the Province of Armagh in the Church of Ireland from 1957 until 1980.

Crooks father was also called an Anglican^[2] clergyman^[3] called Louis Warden Crooks.^[4] Crooks was educated at Campbell College^[5] and Trinity College, Dublin; and ordained in 1937.^[6] After a curacy at Templemore he was a chaplain to the Forces from 1939 to 1946. He was rector of Conwall from 1946 to 1980; and also chaplain to the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

References

1. London Gazette
2. "Descendancy: Irish Protestant histories since 1795: Fitzpatrick,D p98: Cambridge, CUP, 2014 ISBN 978-1-107-08093-5
3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p337: London, Horace Cox, 1908
4. Lennon Wylie
5. newtownards.info
6. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1980–82 p236: Oxford, OUP, 1983 ISBN 0-19-200010-1