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RR 2004/179 Crockford's Clerical Directory, 2004/2005 Church House Publishing London 2003 1288pp. ISBN 0 7151 8128 9 (hardback); ISBN 0 7151 8129 7 (paperback) £48.50 (hardback); £38.50 (paperback)
Keywords Directories, Christianity, Religion, United Kingdom
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120410535137
Subtitled A Directory of the Clergy of the Church of England, the Church of Wales, the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Church of Ireland, this is the 98th edition of John Crockford's brainchild of 1858, The first edition, we are told, "seems to have been assembled in a very haphazard fashion, with names added 'as fast as they could be obtained', out of alphabetical order and with an unreliable index". No such problems here! The introduction tells us in detail, more so than most reference books, how the information was obtained...