Body Of Clergyman Found In River
(Special.) * HAMILTON, This Day. The body of the Rev. Gordon Bell, of Cambridge, who disappeared from his home on the morning, of October 27, was found in the Waikato River half a mile below Ngaruawahia at noon yesterday.
An inquest was opened before Mr°R. C. Avery, J.P., and a jury last evening and was adjourned. Mr Bell was educated at St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge, where he obtained his M.A. degree. In 1914 he was ordained to the parish of Christchurch, Stafford, from whicn in 1920 he came to Auckland as vicar of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In 1929 Mr Bell was appointed vicar of St. Andrew’s Church. Cambridge, and Archdeacon of Waikato. He ceased to be vicar of Cambridge in 1934 and since then had conducted services in a house in Bryce Street, Cambridge, known as the Church of St. Francis.
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Northern Advocate, 19 December 1945, Page 10
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