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{{Short description|Archdeacon of Bermuda}}
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{{Portal|Christianity}}[[Venerable|The Ven.]] '''John Waters Stow''', [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|MA]] (17 January 1912 – 3 July 1971)<ref>''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007''</ref> was [[Archdeacon]] of [[Bermuda]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YrgbMwEACAAJ The Church in Bermuda]</ref> from 1951 until 1961.

He was educated at [[Selwyn College, Cambridge]], and [[Ripon College Cuddesdon]];  and [[ordained]] in 1938.<ref>[[Crockford's clerical directory|Crockfords]] 1967/8 p1190 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1947)</ref>  After  a [[Curate|curacy]] in [[East Wickham]]<ref>[http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=079-pa290b&cid=2-1#2-1 National Archives]</ref> he was a [[Chaplain]] in the [[RNVR]] from 1939 to 1944 when he moved to [[Portsmouth]] to serve a second [[Curate|curacy]] at [[St Mary's Church, Portsea|St Mary, Portsea]]. He was [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|Rector]] of [[St. George, Bermuda]] from 1947 to 1961;  and then of [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Hatfield]] until his death.<ref>"Deaths." ''[[The Times]]'' (London, England), Tuesday, 6 July 1971; pg. 26; Issue 58217</ref>

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