Francis Partridge

The Very Rev Francis Partridge (b Dursley, Gloucestershire, England 1846 – d Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada 1906) was an eminent Anglican priest in Canada^[1] during the last decades of the Nineteenth century and the first of the 20th.^[2]

Educated at Katharine Lady Berkeley's School ^[3] and St Augustine's College, Canterbury he emigrated to Canada in 1868 and became Headmaster of the Grammar School at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, a post he held until 1872. He was Rector of Rothesay, New Brunswick from then until 1879 when he was appointed a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton. He was Rector of St George’s, Halifax, Nova Scotia from 1881 until becoming a Lecturer in Apologetics at the University of King's College in 1886. In 1895^[4] he became the first Dean of Fredericton;^[5] and died in post on 18 April 1906.^[6]

Notes

1. Anglican Parish of Cambridge & Waterborough
2. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
3. ‘PARTRIDGE, Very Rev. Francis’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 15 Nov 2014
4. The Guardian announces the following preferments The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jan 31, 1895; pg. 11; Issue 34488
5. Heritage Fredericton
6. Daily Sun 18 April 1906