Harry Blackburne

Harry William Blackburne Distinguished [Service Order|DSO], MC was an Anglican clergyman, Dean of Bristol from 1934 to 1951.
He was born on 25 January 1878 and educated at Tonbridge School and Clare College, Cambridge. After service as a trooper in the Queen's Own [West Kent Yeomanry] during the Second Boer War he was ordained in 1902. After a curacy at All Saints, Leamington Spa|Leamington] he was an army Chaplain from 1903 to 1924. From 1924 to 1931 he was Vicar of St Mary, Ashford. An Honorary [Chaplain to the King] he was a Canon of St George's, Windsor until his appointment to the Deanery. A noted author, he died on 31 May 1963.
His brother Lionel Blackburne was Dean of Ely, one son Hugh a Bishop of Thetford and another, Kenneth, the first governor-general of Jamaica.
Personal papers belonging to Blackburne are held in the archives at The Museum of Army Chaplaincy.