Background
Child was born in 1884 and educated at Sherborne, Street John"s College, Oxford, and Cuddesdon College.
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Maurice Child
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He was ordained by the Bishop of London in 1909. He served curacies at Street Andrew"s Haverstock Hill, Kentish Town. Saint Michael, Plymouth.
Holy Trinity, Sloane Street.
And Saint Mary, Pimlico. He was a librarian at the Pusey House, Oxford and General Secretary of the English Church Union.
He was appointed as Rector of Street Dunstan, Cranford in 1935. At this time he was much involved with the Society of Steamship He was the author of numerous tracts published by the society, often with illustrations by Martin Travers.
Child was much travelled.
In 1912 he took part in the Yale Expedition to Peru. Before the First World War he worked in South Africa, the South Sea Islands and Australasia. During the First World War he was with the British Expeditionary Force in France serving as a liaison officer
After the Armistice he was in the United States and in 1922 went to India and Burma.
He also organized the first Anglican pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1924. He died in 1950 after falling down the stairs at a friend"s dinner party.
