Edward Seagar


Edward Leslie Seager was Archdeacon of Dorset from 1955 to 1974.
Born on 5 October 1904, he was educated at Bromsgrove School and Durham University, becoming ordained in 1929. At Durham he was a member of Hatfield College and served as President of the Durham Union for Easter term of 1927. He was Chaplain at Wellington School from 1931 until 1939; and a Chaplain to the Forces from then until 1946. He was Vicar of Gillingham, Dorset from 1946 to 1979, Rural Dean of Shaftesbury from 1951 to 1956; and a Canon of Salisbury Cathedral from 1954 to 1968.
He died on 2 November 1983.