Catalogue description Papers of the Revd William John Francis Keatley Stride, rector of Besselsleigh

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Details of D/EX 1533
Reference: D/EX 1533
Title: Papers of the Revd William John Francis Keatley Stride, rector of Besselsleigh
Date: 1920-1936
Held by: Royal Berkshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 3 vols, 14 bdls, 6 docs
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in August 1998 (acc. 6291); in March 1999 (acc. 6396)

Administrative / biographical background:

William John Francis Keatley Stride was rector of Besselsleigh, 1920-1936, and developed a keen interest in the history of the parish. He had taken his degree in history (Oxon 1894). Stride was ordained in 1903, and served as curate (1902-1903) and vicar (1904-1919) of Wootton. He became Rural Dean of Abingdon in 1921

 

Edith Ball-Lenthall, patron of the living of Besselsleigh, seems to have been related to Mr Stride; in letters preserved here, Mrs Ball-Lenthall addresses him as "Daddy", although according to Burke's Landed Gentry she was the daughter of Walter Lenthall. "Daddy Stride" was in fact the nickname given to the rector by parishioners

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