Henry Mercer (priest), the Glossary
Henry Frederick Mercer (30 March 1872 – 22 February 1949) was a British priest in the Church of England who became Dean of Perth, but whose career ended in disgrace when he was convicted and imprisoned on numerous occasions for fraud.[1]
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52 relations: Anglican Archbishop of Perth, Armadale, Victoria, Australian pound, Bachelor of Arts, Barrow-in-Furness, Birmingham, Bristol, Charles Riley, Christ's College, Cambridge, Church Army, Church of England, Court of quarter sessions, Daily News (Perth, Western Australia), Doctor of Letters, Elizabeth Couchman, First Australian Imperial Force, Fremantle, Geelong, Giggleswick School, Hampstead, Hawthorn, Victoria, HM Prison Wandsworth, Kolkata, Lancashire, London, Lowther Clarke, Master of Arts, Melbourne, National Registration Act 1939, North Mymms, Old Bailey, Rhyl, Royal Air Force, Royal British Legion, Royal Naval Reserve, Septimus Burt, Southall, Southport, Spitalfields, St George's Cathedral, Perth, St John's College, Nottingham, St. Columb's Anglican Church, The Argus (Melbourne), The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Mirror (Western Australia), The Sunday Times (Western Australia), The West Australian, University of Western Ontario, Uralla Times, Victoria (state), ... Expand index (2 more) »
- British fraudsters
- Deans of Perth
- People educated at Giggleswick School
Anglican Archbishop of Perth
The Archbishop of Perth is the diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Perth, Anglican Church of Australia and ex officio metropolitan bishop of the ecclesiastical Province of Western Australia.
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Armadale, Victoria
Armadale is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Stonnington local government area.
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Australian pound
The pound (sign: £, £A for distinction) was the currency of Australia from 1910 until 14 February 1966, when it was replaced by the Australian dollar.
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Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.
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Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow-in-Furness is a port town and civil parish (as just "Barrow") in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England.
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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.
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Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.
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Charles Riley
Charles Owen Leaver Riley (26 May 1854 – 23 June 1929) was the first Anglican Archbishop of Perth, Western Australia.
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Christ's College, Cambridge
Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
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Church Army
The Church Army is an evangelistic organisation and mission community founded in 1882 in association with the Church of England and now operating internationally in many parts of the Anglican Communion.
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Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.
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Court of quarter sessions
The courts of quarter sessions or quarter sessions were local courts that were traditionally held at four set times each year in the Kingdom of England from 1388; they were extended to Wales following the Laws in Wales Act 1535.
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Daily News (Perth, Western Australia)
The Daily News, historically a successor of The Inquirer and The Inquirer and Commercial News, was an afternoon daily English language newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, from 1882 to 1990, though its origin is traceable from 1840.
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Doctor of Letters
Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., Latin: Litterarum Doctor or Doctor Litterarum) also termed "Doctor of Literature" in some countries is a terminal degree in the arts, humanities and social sciences that, depending on the country, is a higher doctorate after the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree or equivalent to a higher doctorate, such as the Doctor of Science (Sc.D.
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Elizabeth Couchman
Dame Elizabeth May Ramsay Couchman DBE (née Tannock; 19 April 1876 – 18 November 1982) was an Australian political activist.
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First Australian Imperial Force
The First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF) was the main expeditionary force of the Australian Army during the First World War.
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Fremantle
Fremantle is a port city in Western Australia located at the mouth of the Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital.
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Geelong
Geelong (Wathawurrung: Djilang/Djalang) is a port city in Victoria, Australia, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, about southwest of Melbourne.
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Giggleswick School
Giggleswick School is a public school (English private boarding and day school) in Giggleswick, near Settle, North Yorkshire, England.
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Hampstead
Hampstead is an area in London, England, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, and extends from the A5 road (Roman Watling Street) to Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland.
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Hawthorn, Victoria
Hawthorn is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne's central business district, located within the City of Boroondara local government area.
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HM Prison Wandsworth
HM Prison Wandsworth is a Category B men's prison at Wandsworth in the London Borough of Wandsworth, South West London, England.
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Kolkata
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Lancashire
Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
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Lowther Clarke
Henry Lowther Clarke (23 November 1850 – 23 June 1926) was the fourth Anglican bishop and first archbishop of Melbourne, Australia.
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Master of Arts
A Master of Arts (Magister Artium or Artium Magister; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries.
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Melbourne
Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.
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National Registration Act 1939
The National Registration Act 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 91) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom.
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North Mymms
North Mymms is a civil parish in the English county of Hertfordshire.
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Old Bailey
The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey after the street on which it stands, is a criminal court building in central London, one of several that house the Crown Court of England and Wales.
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Rhyl
Rhyl (Y Rhyl) is a seaside town and community in Denbighshire in Wales.
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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
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Royal British Legion
The Royal British Legion (RBL), formerly the British Legion, is a British charity providing financial, social and emotional support to members and veterans of the British Armed Forces, their families and dependants.
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Royal Naval Reserve
The Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) is one of the two volunteer reserve forces of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom.
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Septimus Burt
The Hon Septimus Burt KC (25 October 1847 – 15 May 1919) was a Western Australian lawyer, politician and grazier, the son of Sir Archibald Burt.
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Southall
Southall is a large suburban town in West London, England, part of the London Borough of Ealing and is one of its seven major towns. It is situated west of Charing Cross and had a population of 69,857 as of 2011. It is generally divided in three parts: the mostly residential area around Lady Margaret Road (Dormers Wells); the main commercial centre at High Street and Southall Broadway (part of the greater Uxbridge Road); and Old Southall/Southall Green to the south consisting of Southall railway station, industries and Norwood Green bounded by the M4.
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Southport
Southport is a seaside town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England.
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Spitalfields
Spitalfields is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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St George's Cathedral, Perth
St George's Cathedral is the principal Anglican church in the city of Perth, Western Australia, and the mother-church of the Anglican Diocese of Perth.
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St John's College, Nottingham
St John's College, Nottingham, founded as the London College of Divinity, was an Anglican and interdenominational theological college situated in Bramcote, Nottingham, England.
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St. Columb's Anglican Church
St Columb's Anglican Church is an Anglican church in Hawthorn, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne in Australia.
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The Argus (Melbourne)
The Argus was an Australian daily morning newspaper in Melbourne from 2 June 1846 to 19 January 1957, and was considered to be the general Australian newspaper of record for this period.
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
The Daily Telegraph, also nicknamed The Tele, is an Australian tabloid newspaper published by Nationwide News Pty Limited, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp.
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The Mirror (Western Australia)
The Mirror was a weekly broadsheet newspaper published from 1921 until 1956.
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The Sunday Times (Western Australia)
The Sunday Times is a tabloid Sunday newspaper published by Seven West Media, in Perth and distributed throughout Western Australia.
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The West Australian
The West Australian is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia.
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University of Western Ontario
The University of Western Ontario (UWO; branded as Western University) is a public research university in London, Ontario, Canada.
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Uralla Times
The Uralla Times was a newspaper published under various titles between 1895 and 1983 for the town of Uralla, New South Wales, Australia.
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Victoria (state)
Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.
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Western Mail (Western Australia)
The Western Mail, or Western Mail, was the name of two weekly newspapers published in Perth, Western Australia.
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Zurich
Zurich (Zürich) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich.
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See also
British fraudsters
- Alexander Montagu, 13th Duke of Manchester
- Anthony Williams (criminal)
- Chris Atkins (filmmaker)
- Colleen McCabe
- Edward Lawrence Levy (fraudster)
- Gustavus Katterfelto
- Henry Mercer (priest)
- Henry Oberlander
- James McCann (drugs trafficker)
- John Bodkin Adams
- John Hatfield (forger)
- John Vincent Cain
- Lord Gordon Gordon
- Mohammad Ghadami
- Nabil Abdulrashid
- NatWest Three
- Paul Alexander Sutton
- Peter Baker (British politician)
- Robert Aslett
- Robert Peters (bigamist)
- Sidney Stanley
- Stuart Garner
- Tommy Robinson (activist)
- Violet Charlesworth
- William Barrington-Coupe
- William Roupell
Deans of Perth
- Brian Macdonald (bishop)
- Chris Chataway
- Frederick Goldsmith
- Henry Mercer (priest)
- John Bell (Australian priest)
- John Hazlewood
- Richard Pengelley
- Robert Moore (priest)
People educated at Giggleswick School
- Adam Sedgwick (zoologist)
- Anthony Daniels
- Anthony Hugh Baldwin
- Arnold Leese
- Charles Darbishire
- Charles Rycroft (businessman)
- Clarence Blakiston
- David Garnett (priest)
- Douglas Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking
- Duncan Cumming
- Edward Horsfall (rugby union)
- Edward Teschemacher
- George Howson (headmaster)
- Gordon Wilcock
- Graham Hamilton
- Gustav Renwick
- Henry Maudsley
- Henry Mercer (priest)
- Ian William Murison Smith
- J. A. Ratcliffe
- James Agate
- James Frederic Riley
- Joe Mycock
- John Flint (businessman)
- John Hare (actor)
- John Howson (priest)
- Jon Blundy
- Keith Duckworth
- Keith Schellenberg
- Matthew Smith (painter)
- Michael Murgatroyd
- Nevill Francis Mott
- Nigel Roebuck
- Noel Birch
- O. S. Nock
- Ralph Blakelock (priest)
- Richard Whiteley
- Rudolph Anstead
- Tetley Rowe
- Thomas Fowler (cricketer)
- Thomas Kidd (classical scholar)
- Thomas Lawson (botanist)
- Thomas Martin (Conservative politician)
- Thomas William Hogarth
- William Ferrand
- William Hardie (archbishop of the West Indies)
- William Paley
- William Thomas (archdeacon of Northumberland)