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William Donne (priest)
William
Donne
was
Archdeacon of Huddersfield
from 1892 to
1913
.
Baines
was
born
into an
ecclesiastical
family in
Oswestry
;
educated
at
Wellington College
and
Brasenose College, Oxford
; and
ordained
in
1876
.
He was the
Curate in charge
of the
Winchester College
Mission
from 1876 to
1881
; and then held
incumbencies
at
Limehouse
,
Great Yarmouth
and
Wakefield
. He was an
Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria
and then
King Edward VII
.