▶Date of birth:   18 February 1835       Place of birth: Keighley, Yorkshire

▶Father:  Theodore Dury     Mother: (uncertain)

▶Spouse(s):  Georgiana Rose Martin    Date(s) of marriage:  28 February 1889     Place(s) of marriage: Rustall Church, Tunbridge Wells

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: Theodore Dury’s peripatetic career did not take him to Cheltenham, though he resided in the town when in later life he was appointed an Anglican Chaplain in Capri. Dury  was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, in 1835, the fifth son of the Revd. Theodore Dury, of Keighley, Yorkshire, and his wife Anne (née Greenwood). He was educated at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1854, BA 1858, MA 1882. He was ordained Deacon (York) in 1859, Priest (Ripon) in 1860.

Throughout his career in the Church he held the remarkable number of thirteen different curacies, often in his native Yorkshire and starting at St Thomas, York, where he was licensed in 1859, and remained until moving to become Curate of Bolton 1860-2. From Bolton he transferred as Curate to Forcet, near Richmond, Yorkshire 1862-3 and then became Curate of Sutton upon Derwent, Yorkshire 1864-5.

Moving south temporarily, he was appointed Curate of Aldershot, Hampshire 1865-8 (where he joined the local Board of Education in 1866), of Sinnington back in Yorkshire 1869-71, of Sedgefield, Co. Durham 1871-2. Apparently after a short break, he resumed his duties as Curate of Thurscross, Yorkshire 1879-80, and then Curate of Thornton Steward, also in Yorkshire, 1880-3. His final northern residency was as Curate of Tockwith, Yorkshire 1883-4, before he was appointed Curate of Barcombe, Sussex 1884-5. In 1889 he married Georgiana Rose, second daughter of Samuel Dickinson Martin, of Beech Grove, Leeds, and senior partner of Martin and Fenwick, Leeds.

The following year he took up an appointment as Curate of Ampney Crucis, in Gloucestershire. This was followed by a short stretch as Curate of Strensham, Worcestershire 1891-3, before he travelled abroad to a posting as Chaplain at Capri 1894-6 (when staying in England he resided  at 1 Pittville Crescent, Cheltenham 1894-5). Returning from Capri he became Assistant Minister of Shanklin on the Isle of Wight 1896-8. After this he lived at Tunbridge Wells from 1900, though for two months, in May and June 1901, he stayed at the Hôtel de France at Argêles in the Pyrenees, and was Chaplain at the English Church there.

He died in early 1903 at Tunbridge Wells. His estate at death was valued at just over £4,875.

▶Moved to Pittville from:  Capri      Moved from Pittville to: (Uncertain)

▶Date of death: 29 January 1903       Place of death: Tunbridge Wells

▶Date of burial:         Place of burial:

▶Notes: thirteen curacies - perhaps a record!        ID: 8566

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden