New Vicar of Conisborough – Former Doncaster Curate – Rev H.T.Eddershaw

December 1936

Swindon Ties December 21, 1936

New Vicar of Conisborough
Former Doncaster Curate
Rev H.T.Eddershaw

The Rev H Trevor Eddershaw, has accepted the living of Conisborough in succession to the Rev W.J.T.Pascoe, and you will be instituted in February, He is a Yorkshire Rugby Union referee. He is at present Vicar of St Augustine’s Church, Broccobank, Sheffield.

Mr Eddershaw is a native of Swansea, where he was born in 1889. He attended Christ College, Brecon and Jesus College, Oxford where he graduated. He was also a Meyrick exhibitor in Classics. While at Oxford he was secretary of the University Wesley Society.

He was a public schoolmaster for six years at St Peter’s, York, and at Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire, and took his first assistant curacy at Doncaster Parish Church under Archdeacon Sandford, remaining there from 1919 to 1923. He was appointed vicar of St Augustine’s, Sheffield in 1923.

Mr Eddershaw has shown great interest in the work of the Sheffield dioeses. He is honorary secretary of the dioceses and committee for training candidates for Holy Orders, the Deanery Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, of the diocesan Jerusalem Fellowship of prayer, and was also Chaplain to the Actors Church Union in Doncaster and Sheffield.

In 1932 he was married to Miss Mary Kathleen Tobin Rogers, only daughter of the late Mr John Rogers, and Mrs Rogers, of Encliffe Avenue, Sheffield

Throughout his training, and incumbency, Mr Eddershaw has taken a keen an active interest in many phases of sport. He is a rugby Union referee, and played at one time for Oxford University, both for the freshmen, and later for the seniors. He was captain of the hockey and cricket XI at Christ Child College, Brecon, and at Oxford and also held the fives championship at Brecon. He played at one time for Doncaster Badminton Club.