Harold Fielding (priest), Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Harold Fielding (priest)

British Archdeacon

Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1912

Date of Death: 30-Aug-1987

Profession: vicar

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Harold Fielding (priest)

  • Harold Ormandy Fielding (13 November 1912 – 30 August 1987) was an Anglican priest who served as Archdeacon of Rochdale from 1972 to 1982.Born in 1912, the son of Harold W.
  • Fielding and Florence Fielding (née Ormandy), he was educated at Farnworth Grammar School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, and then trained for the Anglican ministry at Ripon College Cuddesdon.
  • Fielding married to Elsie Whillance at St James' Church, Farnworth in 1939.
  • They had four children: Timothy, Robert, Catherine, and John.
  • After curacies at St Mary's, Leigh and St Paul's, Walkden, he was Vicar of St James', New Bury from 1944 to 1965.
  • Fielding was then Vicar of St Peter's, Bolton from 1965 to 1982, during which time he also became Archdeacon of Rochdale.
  • After his retirement, he lived in Bromley Cross, a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton.
  • He published a book in 1983 about James Slade, Vicar of St Peter's, Bolton, one of Fielding's 19th-century predecessors.
  • He died on 30 August 1987, aged 74.

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