Roy Sinker

Michael Roy Sinker (called Roy; 28 September 1908 – 8 March 1994) was Archdeacon of Stow from 1963 to 1967.

Sinker was educated at Haileybury, Clare College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon. He was ordained in 1933. After a curacy in Dalston he was Chaplain to the South African Church Railway Mission from 1935 to 1938. He then served at Bishop's Hatfield, Dalton-in-Furness, and Saffron Walden before his time as Archdeacon; and at St Matthew, Ipswich afterwards.

Notes

↑ "Saffron Walden Society of Change Ringers".
↑ Hackthorn history
↑ Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 31 January 1963; pg. 16; Issue 55613
↑ Archdeacon Of Stow. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 19 April 1967; pg. 10; Issue 56919
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947-48 London: Oxford University Press, 1929
↑ ‘SINKER, Rev. Canon Michael Roy’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 5 May 2017

Church of England titles

Preceded by

Lawrence Ashcroft

Archdeacon of Stow
1954 – 1962

Succeeded by

Sidney Harvie-Clark

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v t e Archdeacons of Stow, of Lindsey and of Stow and Lindsey
High Medieval (Stow)	Hugh Osbert William son of Osbert Roger de Almaria Richard de Almaria Alexander William de Firsby William de Thornaco John of York Hugh de Sancto Edwardo William son of Fulk II William of Canterbury W. Gilbert Michael de Benington Simon de Barton Antony de Sauzthorp Durand of Lincoln Joceline Kirmington
Late Medieval (Stow)	William Ockham William Langwath Adam de Brome Richard Northwode Walter Stauren John Islip Simon Islip John Nassington John Longespey de Regenhill Thomas Ripplingham John Bekingham Henry Chaddesden Henry Motoun Thomas Chandos Thomas Aston Hugh Hanworth Thomas Brunce Stephen Wilton William Lyndwood William Scrope Peter Irford Lawrence Booth Edmund Booth William Witham John Collinson Thomas Downe Edmund Shireff John Blithe William Sheffield Robert Frost William Smith Edward Derby
Early modern (Stow)	Anthony Draycot Christopher Massingberd John Aylmer John Harrison John Aylmer (again) Roger Kelke Thomas Sparke John Fermery John Hills Alexander Chapman Nicholas Walker James Duport Stephen Luddington Byrom Eaton John Gery John Hutton Laurence Echard Squire Payne William Bassett John Towne Robert Wharton Cayley Illingworth Henry Bayley William Stonehouse
Late modern (Stow)	John Giles Edward Trollope (Bishop of Nottingham) George Perry John Bond George Jeudwine John Wakeford Ernest Blackie (Bishop of Grantham then of Grimsby) Arthur Greaves, Bishop of Grimsby Mervyn Armstrong Lawrence Ashcroft Michael Roy Sinker Sidney Harvie-Clark David Scott Roderick Wells (became Archdeacon of Stow and Lindsey)
of Lindsey	archdeaconry split from that of Stow Herbert Parry Nathaniel Railton Lisle Marsden Clifford Jarvis Bill Dudman Christopher Laurence merged back into Stow archdeaconry
of Stow and Lindsey	Roderick Wells (previously Archdeacon of Stow) Tim Ellis Jane Sinclair Mark Steadman Aly Buxton

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