Background
Doctor Iremonger was born the third son of William Henry (1845–1911) and Mary Sophia Iremonger of Wherwell Priory Hampshire, who were first-cousins, and educated at Clifton and Keble College, Oxford.
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Frederic Iremonger
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Keble College; Clifton College.
Career
Ordained in 1906 he began his career with a curacy at All Saints", Poplar after which he was Priest in charge at Street Nicholas, Blackwall. Later he was Vicar of Street James the Great, Bethnal Green and then Rector of Quarley. In 1918 he accompanied Doctor Cosmo Language then Archbishop of York as chaplain and secretary on an important mission to the United States of America. On his return he joined and became chairman in 1919 (president in 1922) of the Life and Liberty Movement begun by Doctor William Temple and Dick Sheppard in 1917.
However his strengths lay in writing rather than in administration of a newspaper and after four years he resigned and returned to a country parish.
He was appointed Director of Religion at the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1933 where he had "immense success" bringing about a notable rise in the standard of religious broadcasting and being appointed an Honorary Chaplain to the King in 1936. He held his post at the British Broadcasting Corporation until 1939 when having exceeded the British Broadcasting Corporation"s age limit (60) he again retired to a small country parish.
Within a few months Doctor Iremonger was elevated to the Deanery of Lichfield Cathedral. "He did not settle down easily to Cathedral life and its traditions".
He died in that post, aged 73, on 15 September 1952.
"His strong and attractive character and undemonstrative piety impressed all who knew him and gained him a host of friends". His biography of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, published in 1948 "earned much praise and deserved much gratitude".
