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Dural District Anglican Churches

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Rectors of Castle Hill and Dural

The Dural district was part of the Anglican Parish of Castle Hill from 1839 until 1937, when it became a separate parish. A list of the Rectors of Castle Hill Parish from 1839-1937, and of Dural Parish from 1937 to the present, with the date of their licence, is provided below. The dates of birth and death are mainly taken from an appendix in "Sydney Anglicans" (1987) by Stephen Judd & Kenneth Cable.

CASTLE HILL

July 1839: William Branwhite Clarke (1798-1878)

1845: Thomas Horton (1807-1896)

1 October 1856: Arthur Douglass (1816-1878)

1 July 1860: Robert Taylor (1834-1907)

15 January 1866: Henry Ham Britten (1836-1913)

31 January 1877: John Theophilus Schleicher (c1819-1892)

1 December 1885: Charles Henry Gibson (1846- ?)

16 June 1887: Francis (Frank) Rowling Elder (1855-1931)

23 July 1892: Edward Hargrave (1860-1920)

23 June 1899: Edward Glanville Cranswick (1853-1934)

1 July 1910: William John Roberts (1865-1938)

1 January 1925: Thomas Knox (1891-1972)

30 December 1931: Herbert Eric Felton (1899-1964)

DURAL

1 December 1937: Ronald (Ronnie) Arthur O'Brien (1908-1998)

1949: Albert T. Pitt-Owen (1912-1997)

2 September 1953: Dennis G.H. Johnson

18 July 1956: Keith Henderson Marr

23 October 1958: Kenneth (Ken) James Leask

3 March 1961: Victor (Vic) William Roberts

30 October 1964: William (Bill) James Lawton

15 September 1967: Brian Franklin Vernon King (1938-2006)

7 October 1973: Donald (Don) Jesse Wilson

26 June 1985: Gerald Beckett

28 April 1998: Fergus Semler