24 Robert Jefferson

Dates of Rectorship: 1943 – 1949

Before –
Sometime before 1916: Entered Readers’ Orders
23rd February 1916: Masonic Initiation, East Dereham, Norfolk
19th March 1932: Ordained Deacon
12th April 1933: Ordained Priest
1933: Curate at All Saints’, Hilton, Aberdeen
1935: Priest at Holy Trinity, Appleton, Lancashire
””: Priest at the Priory Church of St. Mary of Mount Carmel, South Queensferry

Birth –
Date: Circa 1886
Place: County Durham
Father: Probably John Jefferson, an Engineer
Mother: Probably Elizabeth Jackson

Marriage –
Date: 3rd July 1929
Place: St. Devenick’s, Bieldside
Spouse: Ida Elizabeth Wood

Death –
Date: 8th January 1952

Additional Information –
Occupation given in his Masonic Initiation is “Lay Reader”; a voluntary role which is unusual listed as an occupation. At his wedding in 1929, his occupation is a “medical student” (his wife in fact, is a ‘medical practicioner’), but only three years later he is ordained into the clergy. Certainly a well travelled man.