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SHREVE, RICHMOND (1850-1924)

SHREVE, RICHMOND, principal of the County Grammar School, 1869-73; b. Guysborough, N.S., 15 Oct 1850, s/o the Rev. Charles J. Shreve and Harriet Ann Hartshorne; m. 1874, Mary Catherine Parker Hocken, d/o Richard Hocken and Susan Samuel; d. Montreal, 12 Nov 1924.

Richmond Shreve was nineteen years of age when he came to the Miramichi in 1869 as principal and sole teacher of the County Grammar School. He was an unmarried, extramural college student at the time who earned two degrees from King's College, Windsor (BA 1870, MA 1873), while engaged in Chatham. In 1871 he was boarding at the home of George J. Parker. He lectured at the Mechanics' Institute that year on "The Early History of Nova Scotia." He remained at the school until the spring of 1873 and then resigned and went back to his home province.

In 1874 Shreve was made a deacon of the Anglican church and appointed curate of St George's in Halifax. After he was ordained a priest in 1875 he had appointments in Halifax, Cornwallis, and Yarmouth. In 1884 he transferred to the state of New York, where he served as rector of several Episcopal churches. In this period he concluded his theological studies through King's College (BD 1890, DD 1891).

Shreve returned to Canada in 1902 as rector of Sherbrooke, Que. In 1911 Bishop's College conferred a DCL (honoris causa) on him, and in 1915 a DD (jure dignitatis). In the latter year he was appointed dean of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity and rector of Quebec City, offices which he was still filling at the time of his death in a Montreal hospital in 1924. He was one of the leading scholars of the church in Canada, "with a wide reputation as a liturgiologist." He was also an outstanding pulpit orator and one who performed his duties with "extraordinary reverence and dignity."

Shreve and his wife, Mary C. P. Hocken, had two daughters living in Philadelphia and two sons living in New York City in 1937. Their son Richmond Harold Shreve was head of the New York architectural firm of Shreve, Lamb, & Harmon, which designed the Empire State Building and other landmark structures in New York and other East Coast cities.

Sources

[b/d] The Diocesan Gazette (Quebec) 1924 [m] Telegraph 9 Oct 1874 / Advocate 2 Feb 1871, 11 Jun 1873, 18 Mar 1874, 24 Nov 1937 (re. Florence N. Rogers); Francis research; Morgan (CM&W) 1912; Who Was Who (re. Richmond Harold Shreve)


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