18 Aug 2023                   
                Wife: Katherine Anne March    
                Born: 25 Dec 1873          in Lancashire  1
              Census: 1911                 in Isle of Wight   (see note 1)
             Resided: 1939                 in Surrey  1
             Resided: 1960                 in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire  2
                Died: 1960                 at Evelyn Nursing Home, Trumpington Road, Trumpington  3,2 (see note 2)
              Father:
              Mother:
             Husband: George Wilfrid Blenkin     
             Married: 1903                 in London  4 (see note 3)
                Born: 1861                 in Lincolnshire  
              Census: 1871                 in Lincolnshire   (see note 4)
           Education:                      Trinity College, Cambridge  5 (see note 5)
             Resided: 1904 - 1906          at St Guthlacs, 21 Chaucer Road, Trumpington  6
              Census: 1911                 in Isle of Wight   (see note 6)
          Occupation: 1911                 Vicar of Brading  
                Died: 1924                 in Hertfordshire  3 (see note 7)
              Father: George Beatson Blenkin   (1821 -     ) 
              Mother: Maria Swan   (1828 -     ) 
          Media link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Blenkin
          Media desc: Wikipedia

Sources:
(1) 1939 Register. 
(2) Probate record. 
(3) Index on ancestry.co.uk. 
(4) FreeBMD website. 
(5) Alumni Cantabrigienses. 
(6) Rus in Urbe. 


Event Notes
Note (1) Age 37, born Rochdale, with husband George Blenkin and son
Note (2) Mar 1960 Cambridge 4a 219   age 86
Note (3) Jun 1903 Kensington 1a 278
Note (4) Age 10, born Boston, with family
Note (5) Name: 	George Wilfrid. Blenkin
College: 	TRINITY
Entered: 	Michs. 1880
BORN: 	16 Feb 1861
Died: 	24 Sep 1924
More Information: 	Adm. pens. at TRINITY, June 1, 1880. S. of George Beatson
(above), clerk, of Boston, Lincs. B. there Feb. 16, 1861. School, Harrow.
Matric. Michs. 1880; Scholar, 1883; Prizeman; (Class. Trip., 1st Class, 1883;
Theol. Trip., 1st Class, 1885); B.A. 1884; M.A. 1887; D.D. 1921. Fellow,
1899-1906. Chaplain, 1891-1902. Chaplain of Emmanuel, 1886-91. Fellow of Corpus
Christi, 1899. Senior Proctor, 1896. Ord. deacon, 1886; priest (Ely) 1887.
Select Preacher at Cambridge, 1890, 1893 and 1896. Theological Lecturer at
Sidney Sussex College, 1893-7; at Corpus Christi College, 1898-1901. V. of
Brading, Isle of Wight, 1906-13. Rural Dean, 1908-13. V. of Hitchin, Herts.,
1913-14. Preb. of Lincoln, 1903-14. Dean and R. of St Albans, 1914-24.
Surrogate, dio. St Albans, 1917-24. Died Sept. 24, 1924. (Crockford; The Times,
Sept. 25, 1924.)
Note (6) Age 50, born Boston.  Vicar of Brading, with wife Katherine and son
Note (7) Sep 1924 St Albans 3a 644   age 63

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