Richard Burne
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Richard Vernon Higgins Burne FSA (19 March 1882 – 9 March 1970) was Archdeacon of Chester from 1937 to 1965.
Burne was educated at Malvern College, Keble College, Oxford and Ripon College Cuddesdon. After a curacy in Slough he became chaplain to the Charles Ferguson-Davie, the Bishop of Singapore, in 1913. During World War I he was a chaplain to the British Armed Forces. After the war he was a tutor at the Ordination Test School, Knutsford; and then its principal from 1923 until his archdeacon’s appointment.
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| Preceded byNorman Henry Tubbs | Archdeacon of Chester 1937–1965 | Succeeded byLeslie Gravatt Fisher |