▶Date of birth: 15 May 1887         Place of birth: The Sanctuary, Probus, Cornwall

▶Father:  Clement Fox Harvey     Mother:  Helen Cornelia Chilcott

▶Spouse(s): (1) Marjory Palmer; (2) Norah May Hankins     Date(s) of marriage:  (1) 4 April 1923; (2) 4Q 1951     Place(s) of marriage: (1) St Patrick’s Church, Hove, Sussex; (2) St Austell, Cornwall

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican); Scoutmaster

▶Lifestory: Cyril Harold Fox Harvey (also Fox-Harvey) was trained for the priesthood at Cuddesdon in Oxfordshire, and served as curate at All Saints’ Church in Cheltenham before moving to other parishes, mainly in the south of England; wherever he went he seems to have taken his interest in the Scouting Movement with him.

Harvey was born at the Sanctuary, Probus in Cornwall, in 1887, the fourth son of the Revd. Clement Fox Harvey, Canon of Truro and Vicar of Probus, Cornwall, and his wife Helen Cornelia, eldest daughter of J. G. Chilcott, of Glendroc, Truro. He obtained the Science prize at Radley College in 1903, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1905, where he studied Medicine, BA 1909.

After graduating he then proceeded to train for the priesthood at Cuddesdon Theological College, Oxfordshire, and in 1911 was boarding near the College at nearby Forest Hill in the county. Harvey took holy orders and was ordained Deacon in 1911, and Priest (both Gloucester) in 1912. He was licensed Curate of All Saint’s Church in Cheltenham in 1911 and later that year became the popular Scoutmaster of the All Saints’ troop (he subsequently became District Scoutmaster for Gloucester and Honorary County Secretary). In 1914 he lived at 8 Pittville Villas (now 52 Prestbury Road) in Pittville.

Later in 1914 Harvey resigned his post at All Saints’ on the grounds of ill health, and was licensed Curate at the village of Upton St Leonards, Gloucestershire, where he lived at the Rectory until 1920. In that year he accepted the post of Curate at St Martin’s Church, Potternewton, in the diocese of Ripon.

He took his scouting interests with him to his new job, where he was appointed District Scouting Commissioner for North-East Leeds. In 1923 he was Assistant Curate at St Patrick’s Church in Hove, where he lived at 68 Lansdowne Street; it was from this address that he married Marjory, of Newton Road, Leeds, and third daughter of Henry John Palmer, formerly Editor of the Yorkshire Post, at Hove, Sussex in 1923. Harvey’s next move was to Ashstead in Surrey, where he was Curate-in-Charge in 1925; he and his wife lived at St George’s Cottage, Greville Park, Epsom, Surrey. After Ashstead the Revd. Harvey appears in post as Curate in 1931 at Holy Trinity Church, Weymouth.

In 1933 he stood in for the Vicar of Walton in Surrey, during the incumbent’s tour of duty in Scotland, and in 1934 he was preferred to the vicarage of Church Crookham, near Fleet in Hampshire, where he was Vicar of Crookham. After Crookham, the Revd. Harvey was appointed to the living as Perpetual Curate at St Mary’s, Par in Cornwall in 1943, where he lived at Priory Cottage. After the death of his wife in 1941 he remarried, to Norah May Hankins at St Austell, Cornwall in 1951.

In 1952 it was rumoured that he might take the living of Colan in Cornwall, but instead he decided to retire from the Church, on the grounds of ill health. He and his wife remained in the region, and he assisted from time to time at church services, but without cure of souls.

The Revd. Harvey died in late 1964, at the age of seventy-seven, at Fowey District Hospital, Fowey in Cornwall; he was buried at St Mary’s Church, St Blazey Gate, Cornwall. His estate at death was valued for probate at £4,796.

▶Moved to Pittville from:  Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire      Moved from Pittville to: Upton St Leonards, Gloucestershire

▶Date of death:  24 December 1964      Place of death: Fowey District Hospital, Fowey, Cornwall

▶Date of burial:         Place of burial:

▶Notes:        ID: 14610

Contributor(s):  John Simpson