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Type of entity
Person
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Bancroft, Charles
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Description area
Dates of existence
1845-1906
History
Rev. Charles Bancroft, M.A., was born on September 13, 1845, in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Rev. Canon Charles Bancroft (1819-1877).
He was an Anglican clergyman who received his education at Montreal High School, McGill University, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (B.D.). In 1865, he started his service as a deacon and curate at the Holy Trinity Church in Montreal, where his father was the rector. He was ordained a priest in 1869 and served as the rector of Knowlton, Quebec, from 1876 to 1888. Following this, he served as the rector at the Anglican Grace Church in Sutton, Québec, from 1888 to 1893, and at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Nashua, New Hampshire, from 1893 to 1905. In 1906, he retired to Knowlton, Quebec.
In 1869, he married Eunice Foster (1845-1912). He died on December 1, 1906, in Knowlton, Brome, Quebec.