Algernon Seymour (priest)

Algernon Giles Seymour (1 September 1886 – 22 October 1933) was an Anglican priest in the first part of the 20th century.

Seymour was born into an aristocratic and ecclesiastical family.^[1] His father was Albert Seymour, sometime Archdeacon of Barnstaple (and himself the son of a priest) and his maternal grandfather was John Fortescue (himself a priest and son of Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue). He was a chorister in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge,^[2] and afterwards attended Aldenham School, Jesus College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon.^[3] He was ordained in 1910 and began his ordained ministry as a curate at St Peter's, Mansfield and Holy Trinity, Ilkeston. He was an acting chaplain in the Royal Navy from 1915 to 1920 when he became Vicar of Tong, Yorkshire. He was Provost^[4] of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow^[5] from 1927 until his death on 22 October 1933.

References

^ The Peerage – Very Revd Algernon Seymour
^ Thomas Henry Case (1899). Memoirs of a King's College Chorister. W.P.Spalding. p. vii.
^ "Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
^ St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow
^ "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689–2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0567087468

Religious titles
Preceded by Ambrose Lethbridge	Provost and rector of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow 1927–1933	Succeeded by Kenneth Warner

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v t e Provosts and rectors of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow
Rector	Richard Oldham
Provost and rector	Frederick Ridgeway Howel Brown Frederic Deane Ambrose Lethbridge Algernon Seymour Kenneth Warner John Murray Martin Leonard Frank Laming Hugh McIntosh Harold Mansbridge Malcolm Grant Peter Francis Griff Dines Kelvin Holdsworth