George Timms

TIMMS, George Boorne. b. Derby, 4 October 1910; d. Margate, Kent, 15 November 1997. Born into a Baptist family, he was educated at Derby School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford (BA 1933, MA 1945). He joined the Community of the Resurrection, Mirfield, in 1933, and took Holy Orders (deacon 1935, priest 1936). He was curate of St Mary Magdalene, Coventry (1935-38) and of St Bartholomew, Earley, Reading (1938-49); sacrist, and later succentor, of Southwark Cathedral (1949-52); vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill (1952-65) and Rural Dean of Hampstead (1959-65); incumbent of St Andrew, Holborn (1965-81) and Archdeacon of Hackney (1971-81), during part of which time he was also Prebendary of St...