Frederick Westcott

Frederick Brooke Westcott, DD (16 December 1857 in Harrow – 24 February 1918 in Norwich) was Archdeacon of Norwich from 1910 until his death.[1]

The son of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham from 1890 until 1901, he was educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] He was an Assistant Master at Rugby School from 1884 to 1892; an Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria;[3] and Headmaster of Sherborne School from 1892 until his appointment as Archdeacon.[4]

References

  1. 'WESTCOTT, Ven. Frederick Brooke', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 23 Dec 2016
  2. Venn, J.A. (ed.). "Westcott, Brooke Foss". Alumni Cantabrigienses. Volume VI, Part II. Cambridge University Press. p. 411.
  3. London Gazette
  4. Crockford's 1908 p1521 (London, Herbert Cox, 1908


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