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The Venerable Harry Dan Leigh Viener CBE,[1] [2] UCd’I,[3] MA, was an eminent Anglican Chaplain in the first half of the 20th century.[4]

Born in Blackpool [5] on 26 December 1868,[6] he was educated at Malvern College and St John's College, Oxford. He was a Schoolmaster and Private Tutor from 1892 to 1899 when he was ordained a Deacon into the Church of England; and Priest the following year.[7] After a curacy at St Peter’s, Walsall[8] he was a naval chaplain and instructor from 1901[9] until 1918 when he joined the fledgling RAF Chaplaincy Service as its Archdeacon (Chaplain-in-Chief). An Honorary Chaplain to the King he was Rector of Chawton [10] from 1927 until his retirement in 1934 [11] and died on 7 May 1947.[12]

Church of England titles
Preceded by
Inaugural appointment
Chaplain-in-Chief of the RAF
1918–1926
Succeeded by
Robert Edward Vernon Hanson

Notes and references[]

  1. 7 October 1919
  2. Edinburgh Gazette 14 October 1919
  3. Messina Eathquake Awards
  4. Flight Global
  5. Baptisms at Christ Church in the Parish of Blackpool
  6. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  7. Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, 16 June 1900; Issue 7683. (1493 words). Ordinations Lichfield
  8. Church Web Site
  9. London Gazette 12 November 1901
  10. Geograph
  11. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
  12. Obituary Rev H.D.L. Viener, C.B.E. The Times Saturday, 10 May 1947; pg. 4; Issue 50757; col C


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