Albert Henry Candler
1910-1914
BA Arts
Albert Herny Candler was born in Chelmsford, Essex, in 1890, the middle of three surviving sons born to James Candler, an army sergeant, and his wife Annie. Albert is thought to have entered the University of Manchester, and St Anselm’s Hostel, around 1910. Whilst at University he was awarded a number of prizes including the Junior Bishop Lee Greek Testament Prize in 1910 and the Senior Bishop Lee Greek Testament prize in 1913. Albert was also noted for his poetry and in May 1911 was jointly awarded the English Poem Prize with T. Weymss Reid.
During his time at St. Anselm’s Hostel, Albert received ordination training through parochial work at St. Wilfred’s (Newton Heath), St James’s Birch (Rusholme) and Holy Innocents (Fallowfield) and in 1912 was accepted for missionary work. Leaving St. Anselm’s in 1914, he completed his missionary training at St. Augustine’s College, Canterbury, during which time he was awarded the Ernest Hawkins Reading Prize.
In 1916, Albert became a missionary priest in Kumasi, Ghana, being master of The Government Training Collage in Accra from 1922 to 1926 and first Superintendent of the Schools for the Northern Territories from 1926 to 1932, when he returned to England. Having had a brief furlough to Fleetwood, Lancashire, in 1921, Albert, on his return to England, took the position of vicar of Nelson, Lancashire. With him, was his wife, Dorice Worsick, a fellow Manchester graduate whom he had married in 1922. In 1941, Albert left Nelson for the position of vicar of nearby Kirkham, which he would hold until his death in 1947, at the age of 55.
Maurice Caiger
1912-c.1914
BA French (2nd class)
Born in Hulme in 1893, Maurice Caiger was the fifth of six children born to William Stephen Caiger and Katherine Langrish. He was born and raised in Hulme, where his father was the rector of St. Mark’s Church up until his death in 1914. Maurice is thought to entered St. Anselm’s Hostel in about 1912, achieving 1st class latin in the summer 1914 intermediate BA examinations and 2nd class modern history in the autumn 1914 intermediate BA examinations. Maurice eventually graduated from the University with a 2nd class honours degree in French and by 1916 was teaching at the East Anglican School in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Little else in known about his teaching career except that in 1927 he was made a teacher at Macclesfield Grammar School. At some point, Maurice also underwent theological training at Ripon College, near Oxford, however further details of this are currently unknown.
Maurice was ordained as a deacon by the Bishop of Rochester, in the latter’s private chapel, in October 1932 and licenced to Strood, Kent. In 1935 he was appointed as curate of Beccles, Suffolk, and by the outbreak of the Second World War he had been appointed to North Wotton, Norfolk. Maurice Cagier died in February 1945, at the age of 46.
George Carr
Pre-WW1.
Subject Unknown
Born near Kelloe, County Durham, in December 1896, George Carr was the third child and eldest son of Jonathan and Mary Jane Carr. As a young boy, he served as a choirboy in the local church and decided to take Holy Orders through the influence of the Rev. Samuel Taylor. Having attended Henry Smith Grammar School, Hartlepool, George was then sent to Manchester Grammar School and went someway to achieving his ambitions when he entered St. Anselm’s Hostel in the years prior to the First World War. The outbreak of the war, however, closed the hall and in 1915 George joined the army, becoming a Chaplain to the Kings Royal Rifles. For his actions, George was awarded the military cross, however severe physical and mental wounds prevented him from pursuing ordination and he instead found work as a teacher.
George took a teaching job at Coxhoe Church of England School, leaving in 1919 to attend York training College and in 1920 entering Clare College, Cambridge, where he obtained at B.A. in history. It was probably whilst at Coxhoe Church of England School that George met Ethel Greenwood, an assistant teacher there, and the pair were married on 1 April 1923. The marriage ceremony was performed by George’s fellow Slemsman Spencer Wade, by then vicar of Roker, Sunderland.
At the time of his marriage George was working at New Kyo School in Kyo, Durham. In the following October he was granted an appointment at Birtley George Street School. In 1928, George became a teacher of history at Houghton-le-Spring Grammar School, a post he held through the 1930s and the Second World War, a period in which he took additional responsibilities as a major in the 14th Battalion Durham Home Guards.
In 1946, George left Houghton-le-spring to take the position of headmaster at Wingate A.J. Dawson Grammar School (now Wellfield School) in Wingate, Durham, a role he would hold until 1959 when he left to pursue his ambition of ordination. He was made deacon in the 1959 Michaelmas ordinations at Durham Cathedral and appointed to St. John’s, Darlington, Durham, before being appointed to the perpetual curacy of Evenwood St Paul, Durham, in 1961. George died at Middle Herrington, Durham, in 1970.
