Walter Wardle Explained

Walter Thomas Wardle (born Southsea 22 July 1900; died 12 February 1982) was Archdeacon of Gloucester from 1949 until his death.

Wardle was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford; and Ripon College Cuddesdon. He was ordained Deacon in 1926; and Priest in 1927.^[1] After a curacy at Weeke he was an SPG Chaplain at Montana, Switzerland He was Rector of Wolferton with Babingley from 1929 to 1938; Vicar of Great Barrington and Little Barrington with Taynton, 1938 to 1943; and Vicar of Charlton Kings from 1943 to 1948 when he became a Canon Residentiary at Gloucester Cathedral, a post he held for the rest of his life.^[2]

Wardle was a Freemason, and a member of the Apollo University Lodge, Oxford, under the United Grand Lodge of England.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30 p1356 London: Oxford University Press, 1929
2. ‘WARDLE, Ven. Walter Thomas’, 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 29 Jan 2017
3. Book: Oxford Freemasons: A Social History of Apollo University Lodge . Crook. Prof. Joe Mordaunt. Daniel. Dr. James Wallace. First . Oxford. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford . 2018 . 978-1-85124-467-6.