Lancelot Addison (Archdeacon of Dorset)


Lancelot Farquharson Addison was an Anglican priest: Archdeacon of Dorset from 1948 to 1955.
He was educated at Leeds Grammar School. After a year of studying at University College, Durham, Addison continued his education at Lichfield Theological College. He was ordained in 1911. Following curacies in Stafford, King's Cross and Brighouse he was Vicar of St Thomas, Halifax and then Cranborne before his Archdeacon’s appointment. He was appointed Treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral shortly before his death in November 1955, aged 69.