Priests Ordained by Leadbeater, 1916-1930

This list is incomplete, and will be up-dated as additional information is obtained. Where information about individuals is found in other posts on this blog, reference is given to those.

9 September, 1916 Gustaf Kollerstrom (1864-1927) – see https://cwleadbeater.wordpress.com/2016/12/13/gustaf-kollerstrom/

6 April, 1917 Keith Maurice James Dear (1883-1975) was born in Hobart (Tasmania). He married Margaret May Edney in 1908, and was admitted as a solicitor in 1911. He moved to Sydney and lived at The Manor from 1930. He migrated to England in 1935 where he died in 1975.

16 April, 1917 Julian Adriaan Mazel (1869-1928) – see  https://cwleadbeater.wordpress.com/2016/09/17/julian-adriaan-mazel/

3 February, 1918 Irving Steiger Cooper (1882-1935) – see https://cwleadbeater.wordpress.com/?s=cooper

20 October, 1919 Robert Cordell Firebrace (1899-1991)  – Robert Firebrace had been born in England, the son of Cordell William Firebrace and Ida Dorothy Firebrace (nee Blackwood) and educated at Harrow School, but travelled to Australia and while in Sydney was ordained by Leadbeater when barely twenty years of age. He returned to England to complete his education at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA 1921, MA 1925) and King’s College (AKC 1932). He married Hazel Day in 1922 and they had three daughters. He was ordained a Priest in the Church of England for the Diocese of Chichester in 1933, his Liberal Catholic ordination – if it was disclosed to the Anglican authorities – counting for nothing, and served in English parishes (1932-1935) before returning to Australia. He served as Rector of Moss Vale, NSW 1935-37, and of St Andrew’s, Wahronga, NSW 1937-43, and as an Army Chaplain 1944-45. He was then appointed to parishes in Ireland (1950-1957) and New Zealand (from 1964).

15 May, 1921 Alfred Edward Warner (1879-1968) – see https://cwleadbeater.wordpress.com/2016/12/17/edward-warner/

23 May, 1920 Bernhard Lindberg (1866-?) Lindberg was born in Sweden and studied at the Chalmers Technological Institute at Gothenberg. He immigrated to the USA in 1897.He was an osteopathic physician and a contributor to medical, osteopathic and theosophical journals. He studied at the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio (MD 1890), and in 1900 graduated from the National School of Osteopathy, and undertook postgraduate studies at the Hahnemann Medical College of the Kansas City University, the Central College of Osteopathy at Kansas City and in 1904 became director of the Kansas City Hahnemann Medical College (founded 1902). In 1893, he married to Laura Tobener, a daughter of Henry Tobener, a pioneer tobacco manufacturer of Kansas City. Raised a Lutheran, he became a Theosophist around 1899. Following his ordination by Leadbeater in 1920, Lindberg returned to the USA.

25 August, 1921 Edward Branscombe (1864-1931) – see https://cwleadbeater.wordpress.com/2016/12/16/edward-branscombe/

25 August, 1921 Adrian Vreede (1877-1966) – see https://cwleadbeater.wordpress.com/2017/01/08/adriaan-gerard-vreede/

11 September, 1921 Charles Spurgeon Medhurst (1860-1927) – see https://cwleadbeater.wordpress.com/?s=medhurst

18 December 1921 John Francis Cramp (1887-1933) – John Cramp was born in Paddington (Sydney), the son of John James Cramp (c1838-1905) and Penelope Esther Anne Cramp (nee Trivett)(1857-1931). He qualified as a medical practitioner, having graduated from the University of Adelaide, in 1925. He married Rachel May Tapley in 1915. Cramp was ordained by Leadbeater in the hope of establishing a Liberal Catholic Church in Adelaide (South Australia) where Cramp was living at the time, and he held services in his home at various times until he moved to Sydney in 1928.

28 September, 1924 John Harward McConkey (1901-1971) was the son of John and Mabel McConkey. His father, John Beatty McConkey (1863-1955), came from Ireland, and had been ordained a Priest by Bishop Wedgwood in Sydney in 1916 to establish what was to become the Liberal Catholic Church in Melbourne. John Harward McConkey married Trixie Marjorie Benda in 1930. He saw service in World War II.

17 September, 1926 Russel Balfour Clarke (1886-1981) – see https://cwleadbeater.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/russell-dick-balfour-clarke/

27 May, 1928 Henry Frei (1882-?) – a Swiss citizen, Frei joined the Theosophical Society in 1904. He served as Secretary to Leadbeater 1929-1934 and as Recording Secretary of the Theosophical Society, 1933-1934.

10 March, 1929 Francis Stanley Love (“Heath Burdock”) (1889-1958) – see https://cwleadbeater.wordpress.com/2016/12/16/heath-burdock/

 

 

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