▶Date of birth:  1863        Place of birth: Southsea, Hampshire

▶Father:  John James Lintern     Mother: Emma Maria Sarah Marcer

▶Spouse(s):  Florence Edith Bissaker    Date(s) of marriage:  3 January 1894     Place(s) of marriage: St Mark’s Church, North End, Portsmouth, Hampshire

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican); Schoolteacher, Headmaster; Army officer; Composer and playwright

▶Lifestory: The Revd. Albert Augustus Lintern enjoyed a mixed career, first joining the Army, then training as a teacher, before entering the Church. He was born in 1863 in Southsea, Hampshire, the younger son of John James Lintern, an assistant outfitter, of Portsmouth, and his wife (Emma) Maria Sarah (née Marcer). At the age of eighteen he ran away from home and enlisted in the Cape Mounted Rifles and fought in the Basuto War, serving in all three years in the Army until bought out by his parents. After this he matriculated in the Honours Division at the University of London in 1886, by private study, Intermediate Science 1887, BSc 1888 (both examinations by private study and at University College, Bristol), Intermediate Arts 1891 (private study), BA 1893 (private study, not in residence).

In 1889 he was teaching in South Shields and was actively involved in lecturing, especially on scientific subjects, to the local Literary and Scientific Society; he was also a keen athlete. In 1894 he married Florence Edith, youngest daughter of George R. Bissaker RN, Inspector of Machinery, at Portsmouth; the couple had two daughters and a son. He began his career as a teacher, at first as a resident master in “the boarding school preparatory for Clifton College” for three years, and he then spent almost six years, until 1899, as Second Master in the Kendrick School at Reading. After that he was appointed Headmaster of Ramsey Grammar School in Huntingdonshire, where he stayed for nine years; he played cricket for Ramsey, and taught Chemistry.

He confirmed his wish to take holy orders in 1905 by enrolling at Ely Theological College, and was ordained a Deacon in that year, and a Priest (both Ely) in 1906. In 1905 he was licensed Curate of Ramsey, and in 1908 became for a year Curate of Holy Trinity, Cheltenham (he had hoped that year to join the staff of Basingstoke parish church, but that arrangement had fallen through), when in 1909 he lived at 20 Clarence Square, Pittville.

After Cheltenham he moved as Curate to Holy Trinity, Brompton, Kensington until 1910, when he was appointed Rector of Burnham Deepdale, Kings Lynn; while at Burnham Deepdale he co-wrote a comic opera, Jetsam; it was produced in 1912, when he played the part of Silas B. Hoofbags. During the Great War he was fined £1 for, in ignorance of the details of the relevant Order, not registering two “enemy aliens” who visited him in Norfolk  (a restricted area) with their English wives; he later also served as a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces 1917-19.

Lintern remained at Kings Lynn until his death; in 1933, at the age of seventy, he was found dead in his garage with the car engine running and at the inquest, and although he had been in poor health, his death was regarded as an accident (and not suicide). His estate at death was valued for probate at just under £1,634.

▶Moved to Pittville from:  Ramsey, Huntingdonshireshire      Moved from Pittville to: Brompton, Kensington

▶Date of death:  3 November 1933      Place of death: Burnham Deepdale, Kings Lynn

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▶Notes: Stamford Mercury 31 March 1899       ID: 17378

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden