Description:Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson was born in 1885 in Kensington. He undertook religious training at Lichfield Theological College prior to being appointed as curate to Armitage and Pipe Ridware parishes 1909 to 1913. He would have received his diaconate (his appointment as a deacon, an order ranking below a priest in the Church of England) about a year before being ordained as a priest, which he was in 1911. He married Maud Gibbons of Doddington Manor, near Cheltenham in 1910.
In 1913 he was the first appointed minister at Sorrento, British Colombia, Canada and returned to England in 1916 to become an Army Chaplain; a post he held until 1919 when he returned to Sorrento until 1923. Returning once more to England where he was the incumbent of a sequence of three Gloucestershire parishes before retiring in 1951 when he was appointed Honorary Canon of Gloucester Cathedral. He died in 1976 at his wife's family home.
Photograph by Norman May & Co. Ltd , Cheltenham and has the Rev. Grice-Hutchinson's handwritten inscription 'just before my diaconate'.
This picture is from an album of photographs taken by Thomas Harvey Boycott (1876-1949) who lived with his widowed mother, Fanny Maria, whose family had lived at Handsacre Hall as farmers, together with his unmarried aunt, Sarah Elizabeth Harvey. Harvey Boycott was a Clerk at Lichfield District Probate Court and a skilled amateur photographer. The album was a parting gift from Harvey and his mother to the Rev. R.E. Grice-Hutchinson (1885-1976) who was Curate of Armitage with Pipe Ridware 1909-1913.