COWLEY, GEORGE FREDERICK COWLEY (1880-1963)

COWLEY, GEORGE FREDERICK COWLEY, Anglican missionary, Ludlow and Blissfield, 1924-26; b. Isle of Man, England, 1880; s/o Thomas Cowley and h/w Ann; m. 1921, Emily Grace Kitto; d. Blackpool, England, 2 Jun 1963.

George F. C. Cowley migrated to western Canada around 1911. He was living in Calgary in 1915, when he signed up for service in World War I. After the war, he trained for the ministry in England, and was ordained a deacon by the bishop of Liverpool in 1924. In June of that year, he and his wife arrived at Quebec by steamship, en route to Doaktown, where he succeeded the Rev. Reginald E. J. Britton as head of the Ludlow and Blissfield mission. He was ordained a priest in 1925 and retained his posting until the spring of 1926.

Between 1926 and 1928, Cowley was the rector at St Martins, N.B., and between 1928 and 1930, of Trinity Church in St Stephen. He and his wife, Emily G. Kitto, returned to England in 1930, and both died in Blackpool, Lancashire, in the 1960s. They are not known to have had any children.