Background
Flockhart, Robert Seaton was born on January 15, 1889 in Plymouth, England. Son of John and Mary (Edwards) Flockhart.
Flockhart, Robert Seaton was born on January 15, 1889 in Plymouth, England. Son of John and Mary (Edwards) Flockhart.
Educated State Normal School, Springfield, South Dakot, also Sioux City Business College until 1909. Friends University, Wichita, 1909-1911, General Theological Seminary, 1911-1914. Doctor of Divinity, Tabor (Iowa) College, 1927.
Louise (Mistress John Windsor Persse). Ordained deacon Protestant Episcopal Church, 1914, priest, 1915, rector Grace Church, Chanute, Kansas, 1914-1915. Associate rector All Saints Church, Omaha, 1915-1917.
Successively rector Church Resurrection, Fernbank, Cincinnati, Church Ascension, Cincinnati, Saint Thomas Church, Sioux City, Iowa, Saint John's Church, Western Run, Baltimore, 1929, Saint Thomas’s Church New Haven, 1934-1950, Trinity Church, Lime Rock, Connecticut, 1917-1958.
National crusader, North Dakota, 1927. Associate secretary field department National Council Protestant Episcopal Church, 1928-1932, deputy General Convention, Washington, Cleveland, 1943.
Member College Preachers, Washington, 1928-1933. Diocesan missioner, Washington, 1930, 32.
Director Diocesan Church Mission of Help, 1929-1933.
Member City Mission Staff, Baltimore. Member of faculty Racine Conference, 1931. Leader clergy conferences Diocese Maine, 1931.
Chaplain Hannah More Academy, Baltimore, 1933-1934.
Instructor Maryland. Diocesan Normal School, 1933-1934. President New Haven Clerical Association, 1935-1937.
Member of faculty Pomfret Summer Conference, Diocese Connecticut, 1936-1940, member committee old age benefits, 1937. President New Haven Missionary Association, 1935-1938.
Member Church Scholarship Society.
Chairman New Haven Archdeaconry Division Budget and Program, 1941-1943. Member Diocesan Department Budget and Program, 1941-1943. Member diocesan department missions and member standing committee Diocese Connecticut, 1943-1950, member executive council, 1948-1950.
Rotarian.
Married Marguerite Alice Meyer, January 10, 1917.