Appendix 1 – A List of the Vicars of St Luke’s Great Crosby

name

vicar

died

age

Richard Walker

1853* – 1854

31 March 1854

54

Joseph Clark

1854 – 1870

buried 28 June 1870

77

Robert Love

1870 – 1902

14 November 1902

70

Frederic Arthur Bartlett

1903 – 1918

6 June 1918

67

Edward Hartley

1918 – 1932

1 February 1932

64

Augustus Powell Miller

1932 – 1943

28 May 1976

88

Canon Paul Randolph Shalders Nichols

1943 – 1959

3 June 1986

95

Canon Mansel Harry Bates

1959 – 1969

14 November 1980

68

Canon Raymond John Lee

1970 – 1982

 

 

David Harvey Trollope

1982 – 2004

 

 

*  Curate-in-Charge of St Michael’s Chapel from 1844

The first five vicars are all buried in St Luke’s graveyard and the following information is recorded on their tombstones.

Richard Walker died on 31 March 1854.  Also in Richard’s grave are his wife Jane, buried 16 May 1864, aged 69 and his daughter Hester Helen, buried 18 October 1882 aged 58, of Moor Lane and Bromley.

Joseph Clark was buried on 28 June 1870 aged 77.  Also in the grave are his wife Mary Beynon, buried 19 December 1889 aged 80 of Victoria Road Crosby, his 2nd daughter Mary Ann Mease, buried 21 March 1922 aged 81, and his 4th daughter Fanny, buried 31 March 1928 aged 84.  In another grave are buried his son, Joseph Wilson, died 27 May 1910, aged 64, his wife, Hannah, died 1 February 1916 aged 70, and their son, Harold Wolfenden, died 13 January 1915, aged 30.

Robert Love was buried on 18 November 1902 aged 70.  Also in the family vault are his wife Mary Love who died on 29 March 1902 aged 63 and his daughter Mary Tennant Love who died on 29 August 1877 aged 4 months.

Frederic Arthur Bartlett was buried on 8 June 1918 aged 67.  Also in the grave are his wife Frances Mary who died on 22 August 1938 aged 81, his younger son Arthur who died on 7 December 1959 aged 64, and Edmondson Bartlett MA who died on 9 September 1928 aged 36.

Edward Hartley died on 1 February 1932 aged 64.  Also in the grave are his wife Mary who died in May 1927 aged 57 and his daughter Mary Muriel who died on 6 April 1967 aged 61.