Percy Hartill

Percy Hartill was an Anglican priest and author.
Hartill was educated at New [College, Oxford] and Ripon College Cuddesdon. He was ordained deacon in 1916 and priest in 1917. After a curacy at Christ Church, West Bromwich he was domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfield, and a lecturer at Lichfield Theological College. He was vicar and rural dean of West Bromwich from 1930 to 1935; examining chaplain to the bishop of Lichfield from 1930 to 1955; proctor in Convocation for Diocese of Lichfield from 1931 to 1955; prebendary of Ufton Decani in Lichfield Cathedral from 1935 to 1956; and rector of Stoke Minster and the archdeacon of Stoke-on-Trent from 1935 to 1955. He was also president of the Anglican [Pacifist Fellowship] from 1939 until his death, and prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation of Canterbury from 1955 to 1956.