▶Date of birth:  5 November 1862        Place of birth: Alderley Edge, Cheshire

▶Father:   James Whitworth Consterdine     Mother: Mary Sophia Hill

▶Spouse(s):  Ada Ellen Griffiths    Date(s) of marriage:  [?] October     Place(s) of marriage: Macclesfield, Cheshire

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: Reginald Consterdine was the third son of the Revd. James Consterdine, and his wife Mary Sophia, daughter of William Hill, merchant. He was educated at Mr Sharp’s School in Old Trafford, Lancashire, and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1882, BA 1885, MA 1902, and subsequently at Ridley Hall, Cambridge.  He was ordained Deacon in 1886, and Priest (both Gloucester and Bristol) in 1887.

In 1886 he was licensed Curate of Holy Trinity, Cheltenham he lodged until about 1892 at 11 Selkirk Parade (now 51 Prestbury Road), Pittville and then moved for a year to 12 Clarence Square in Pittville; in 1891 he sat on the Committee of Management of the Cheltenham Eye, Ear, and Throat Infirmary, under the chairmanship of the Revd. G. P. Pearce.

In October 1893 he set sail in the Oceania to join the Revd. B. F. Buxton’s Church Missionary Society group as a missionary to Matsuye, Japan; in 1896 he moved to Tokushima until 1900, when he went on furlough after his seven years’ service.  Late that year he visited relatives in Cheltenham, and preached at Holy Trinity Church. He remained in Britain, giving talks about his experiences in Japan, and was then licensed Curate-in-Charge of Tonbridge 1902-3 before returning to Cheltenham as Curate of St Mark’s 1903-5. In 1905 he was appointed Vicar of St John’s Church, Lindow, Cheshire, and in 1906 married Ada Ellen, daughter of Edward Lloyd Griffiths, of the Granleys, Cheltenham, and niece of Canon Charles Griffiths, Vicar of St Mark’s, Cheltenham; she was gravely ill when they married, by licence, and she died a few days later. In 1910 most of the parish council at Lindow resigned after Reginald Consterdine banned dances and whist drives from taking place in the new parish hall.

Consterdine remained Vicar of Lindow, where he lived with his sister, until his death in 1938, at the age of seventy-five.

▶Moved to Pittville from: (1) Cambridge; (2) Tokushima, Japan       Moved from Pittville to: (1) Matsuye, Japan; (2) Lindow, Cheshire

▶Date of death: 4 August 1938       Place of death: Wilmslow, Cheshire

▶Date of burial:         Place of burial: Lindow, Cheshire

▶Notes:        ID: 5526

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden