- Hubert Crawford Dixon-Spain
dob: 1881
dod: 1932
Married: June, 1915 in St Germans, Cornwall to Mary Preedy.
- The Marriage of Hubert and Mary
Died: February 1932, Suffolk
Army Chaplain, WWI, Palestine and Russia
Vicar of St. Clements, City Road, London and also of Heckington, Lincolnshire
Entered Roman Catholic Church, joined a seminary, and became a student in Rome
Committed suicide by drowning himself after he returned to the UK??
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Vicar of Lutton, South Lincs??
Curate of All Saints Mission, Pentonville and thereafter Gainsborough, Lincs. Vicar of Lutton Lincs Easter 1915 to possibly 1926. Involved in theological controversy (Catholic doctrine of Transubstantiation). Married May 1917 to Mary Preedy daughter of Canon Preedy, Saltash, Cornwall – she died six months later after short illness. She is buried in Lutton cemetery – a processional cross still in the church commemorates her.
Correction : Married May 1915.
All Saints’ Mission was in the parish of St. Clement, City Road. Curate at Heckington – after which there seems to have been a period of some four years when he was probably not in ecclesiastical work. Went to Lutton from Gainsborough in 1915 but he was not a curate of the latter as I had stated.
Died in the Needham Market area (Suffolk) aged 51 years.
Crockford’s records he was in pastoral work (? curate) in Paget, Bermuda 1907-1908. Also, Curate of Messingham with East Butterwick, Lincs 1914-1915.