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Arthur Nicholls

Arthur Bell Nicholls (1819–1906), curate to Patrick Brontë, and husband of Patrick's daughter Charlotte Brontë

Augustus Shears

After serving as Curate of the parishes of Lutterworth, Leicestershire (1851–1853), Escrick, Yorkshire (1853–1855), and Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire (1855–1859), he worked as a missionary in Moulmein, Burma (1859–1862), where he set up a school and translated part of the Book of Common Prayer into Burmese.

Charles James Blasius Williams

He was the eighth child of the Rev. David Williams (1751–1836), born on 3 February 1805 in the Hungerford almshouse in Wiltshire; his father, an uncle of John Williams (1792–1858) the archdeacon of Cardigan, was warden of the almshouse and curate of Heytesbury.

Charles Webb Le Bas

After tutoring the sons of the Bishop of Lincoln, he was ordained in 1812, apparently becoming simultaneously Rector of St Paul's Church, Shadwell, Rector of Darfield, South Yorkshire, Curate of Wombwell and a prebendary of Lincoln.

Christopher Elderfield

After holding some minor appointments, one of which was as curate at Coates, Essex, he became rector of Burton, Sussex.

Clive Head

In September 2012 Paraskos will guest curate an display of Head's work alongside that of Nicolas Poussin at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.

Douglas Crick

A curacy at Maltby followed before a period in education at Winchester College.

Edward Thomas Daniell

In 1832 he was ordained, and for a year and a half was curate at the village of Banham in Norfolk.

Henry Alford

Alford's early years were passed with his widowed father, who was curate of Steeple Ashton in Wiltshire.

Hermann Rolfus

After he had served for brief periods at various places, he was appointed curate at Thiengen in 1851, curate-in-charge at Reiselfingen in 1855, parish priest at the last named place in 1861, parish priest at Reuthe near Freiburg in 1867 at Sasbach in 1875, and at Buhl in 1892.

Italian profanity

For example, the Comune of Brignano Gera d'Adda, after the curate complained about the frequency of blasphemous profanity in the parish recreation centre, banned the practice in the civic centre and in all places of retail business, be it public or private.

James MacEwan

He was Curate then Vicar of Listowel until 1882 then Rector of Dromtariffe from then until 1908.

Jane de Gay

De Gay is also an Anglican priest serving as Assistant Curate at St Martin's Church, Potternewton, Leeds.

Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet

Viennet was the son of National Convention-member Jacques Joseph Viennet and nephew of the priest Louis Esprit Viennet who, aged 40, was made curate of the église Saint-Merri in Paris and who in the early phase of the French Revolution in 1790 preached a sermon on the civil constitution of the clergy.

Jeffrey N. Steenson

Steenson was ordained as a priest of The Episcopal Church on June 29, 1980, and went on to serve as curate at All Saints' Church in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania and later as the rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont and St. Andrew's Church in Fort Worth, Texas.

John Bickersteth

Educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford, he was ordained in 1951 and began his career with a Curacy at St Matthew Moorfield's Bristol.

John Bidlake

He was curate of Plymouth's Stonehouse Chapel, now St George's Church, from 1785 to 1812.

Jozef Murgaš

It was due to his strong patriotism he exhibited during holidays in the 1890s that he was not allowed to finish his painting studies and had to work as a curate in changing places in the Kingdom of Hungary: in Chrenovec (Nyitratormás), Slovenská Ľupča (Zólyomlipcse), Dubová (Cseres) and in Lopej (Lopér).

Justin Simonds

Posted to Bega, Simonds served as a curate before he returned to St Patrick's Seminary as a professor of sacred scripture and Greek.

Kenneth Newing

After a period of study at The College of the Resurrection, Mirfield he was ordained in 1955 and began his career with a curacy at Plymstock followed by a long period as Rector of Plympton St Maurice.

King Britt

They came together to curate an evening of music for the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia to coincide with a Sun Ra exhibit, that was touring.

Langley Burrell

The Georgian parsonage was for many years the home of the Rev. Robert Kilvert, father of the diarist Francis Kilvert, who from 1863 to 1864 and 1872 to 1876 was curate to his father here.

Maisemore

William Stephen Raikes Hodson was born on 9 March 1821 at Maisemore Court, the third son of the curate, Rev. George Hodson.

Martin Charlesworth

He was born in Eastham, then in Cheshire, the son of Rev Ambrose Charlesworth, the curate of the parish, and Alice Whish.

Movement marketing

Scott Goodson, the founder of StrawberryFrog has written that brands can "identify, crystallize, curate and sponsor movements, accelerating their rise."

Norman Matthews

He was curate of St Dyfrig, Cardiff from 1927 to 1935 before becoming the first Warden of St Teilo's Hall of Residence at the University College of South Wales, Cardiff, also serving as Llandaff Diocesan Missioner from 1936 to 1940.

Oliver Goldsmith

He was born either in the townland of Pallas, near Ballymahon, County Longford, Ireland, where his father was the Anglican curate of the parish of Forgney, or at the residence of his maternal grandparents, at the Smith Hill House in the diocese of Elphin, County Roscommon where his grandfather Oliver Jones was a clergyman and master of the Elphin diocesan school, and where Oliver studied.

Penny Jamieson

In 1985 she was ordained to priesthood and became assistant curate of St James’ Lower Hutt.

Peregrin Obdržálek

After being ordained in 1850, he worked as a curate in Dražovice, Topolany, Brankovice, Pustiměř and in Tichá near Frenštát pod Radhoštěm.

Peter Hullermann

After serving as chaplain to an old people's home for a year, Hullermann was then reassigned around 1987 to Garching an der Alz, where he worked as a curate and parish administrator for more than 20 years.

Ralph Morice

He had the farm of the parsonage of Chartham in Kent—that is to say he put in a curate, keeping the rest of the revenues.

Robert Moncreiff, 3rd Baron Moncreiff

In 1870, Moncreiff was awarded BA and ordained a deacon at Lichfield when he became curate of Cubley, Derbyshire.

Roger Jupp

He was ordained deacon in 1980 and priest in 1981 and served as Assistant Curate of Newbold with Dunston (1980-83), Cowley St John (1983-85), and Islington St James with St Philip (1985-86).

Samuel Garbet

He was ordained as a deacon 22 Sept. 1706, and became curate of Great Nesse.

Séamus Cunningham

In 1987 he was appointed pastor of St. Mary’s Cathedral Church and a canon.

Sempringham

Samuel Skelton, curate of Sempringham, sailed to Massachusetts Bay in 1628 with the first group of Puritan settlers, who landed in Salem.

Sir Anthony Ashley, 1st Baronet

Dorothy was the sister of the botanist, Henry Lyte, and the sixth great aunt of Henry Francis Lyte, curate at Brixham and writer of numerous hymns including "Abide with Me".

Sir Henry Thompson, 3rd Baronet

Sir Henry was, during his life, Curate in charge at Holy Trinity Church, Bembridge, Isle of Wight; Rector of the Church of Holy Trinity, Fareham, Hampshire (the building of which had been paid for by himself and his mother, Lady Jane Thompson), and in 1845 he was given the living of Frant, Sussex by the Earl of Abergavenny.

St George's Church, Brighton

After Revd James Anderson became curate of the church in 1828, his close association with Queen Adelaide, the consort of King William IV, made the church very popular.

St. Werburgh's Church, Dublin

Primate James Ussher was appointed to this church in 1607, and Edward Wetenhall, afterwards Bishop of Kilmore, author of the well-known Greek and Latin Grammars, was curate here.

Sydney Thelwall

From 1867 to 1874 he was curate of Charles Church, Plymouth, Devon He was vicar of West Leigh, Devon from 1874 to 1892, and vicar of Radford Semele from 1892 to 1909.

The Communards

Coles followed his Christian leanings and, after periods as a journalist for the Times Literary Supplement and Catholic Herald, he was ordained in the Church of England, spending time as the curate of St Botolph's (The Stump) in Boston, Lincolnshire and as assistant priest at St Paul's Knightsbridge and Chaplain to the Royal College of Music.

Wartling

H.J.C. Turner, born in Wartling in 1850, the son of the curate, he played in the first rugby international in 1871.

Wilfred Currie

Educated at the University of Edinburgh and ordained in 1933, Currie was a curate at St John’s Aberdeen and then Priest in charge of St Mark’s in the same city.

William Boyd Carpenter

William Boyd Carpenter was the second son of the Rev. Henry Carpenter of Liverpool, perpetual curate of St Michael's Church, Aigburth, who married (marriage license 1837 in Derry) Hester Boyd of Derry, sister of Archibald Boyd, Dean of Exeter.

William Leigh Williamson Eyre

He was ordained in 1865 and became curate of a number of English parishes before being appointed, in 1875, rector of Swarraton and vicar of Northington, Hampshire, where he remained for the rest of his life.

William MacKennal

He was ordained in 1908 and held curacies at Great St Mary’s, Cambridge and St George, Dunster.

Wroot

His son John Wesley officiated as curate at Wroot until July 1728, after which he became Moderator of Lincoln College, Oxford.


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