Background
HARFORD, John Battersby was born in June 1857 in St. John’s Parsonage, Keswick. Son of Reverend Canon Harford-Battersby.
HARFORD, John Battersby was born in June 1857 in St. John’s Parsonage, Keswick. Son of Reverend Canon Harford-Battersby.
Studied at Repton School. Trinity College Cambridge Jeremie September Prize, 1878. Equal for Evans and Scholefield Prizes and 1st Class Theological Tripos, 1880.
Master of Arts 1883. Master of Arts.
Curate of St. Paul’s, Onslow Square, with the Reverend Prebendary Webb-Peploe, 1882-1888. Vicar of Pembury, near Tunbridge Wells, 1889-1897. VicePrincipal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge, 1898-1900.
Principal of Lightfoot Hall, Edgbaston, 1901-1902. Principal of Ripon College, Ripon, since 1902; Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Ripon, 1903.