Ernest Burges

This article is about the priest. For the sociologist, see Ernest Burgess.

Ernest Travers Burges (14 August 1851 in Brislington – 10 June 1921 in Richmond) was Archdeacon of Maritzburg[1] from 1908 until his death.[2]

Burges was educated at Shrewsbury School[3] and St John's College, Cambridge[4] and ordained in 1881.[5] After a curacy in Umzinto he was Vicar of Karkloof until 1905;[6] and of Richmond until his death.[7]

  1. ^ THE HILTONIAN NUMBER 115 MARCH 1980 p4
  2. ^ Obituary. The Times (London, England), Saturday, 25 June 1921; pg. 13; Issue 42756]
  3. ^ "Shrewsbury School register, 1734–1908" Auden, J.E. (ed) p69: WOODALL, MINSHALL, THOMAS & CO; Caxton Press; 1909
  4. ^ "MORAL SCIENCES TRIPOS.—1873" The Bury and Norwich Post, and Suffolk Herald (Bury Saint Edmunds, England), Tuesday, 16 December 1873; pg. 6; Issue 4773.
  5. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p208: London, Horace Cox, 1908
  6. ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. vi. Square – Zupitza, (1954) p450
  7. ^ MISSION ON THE MARGIN, A CASE STUDY ON REFORMED MISSION PROSPECTS IN ENKUMANE