VETERAN CLERGYMAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21225, 4 July 1932, Page 10

VETERAN CLERGYMAN.

CANON BEAN TO RETIRE. ■ . •& FIFTY-ONE YEAISS" RECORD. , Fifty-one years in Holy Orders, forty of which have been spent as vicar of the parish of .Addington, Chriistchurch, is tbe record of Canon W. S. Bean, who last week celebrated the 40th anniversary of his arrival in the parish. The .length of his pericd as vicar at Addington constitutes a record for the DiOJese. ' " " "** *' ; Canon Bisan, who is to retire at the end of thi;i year, was ordained at St. Michael's by Bishop Harper on September 25, 1881, and was ordained a_ priest at Christchurch Cathedral in 1880, also by Bishop Harper. For two years he was a> curate under Dean Harper, and was then appointed vicar at Sheffield, Springfield and Hororata, where he remained until 1888. He moved next to Kumara. and was \icar of that district and of Waimea and Stratford until 1892. While at Kumara he married the eldest daughter of Mr, R. J. Seddon, afterwards Premier of New Zealand. . The vicarage at Addington when he and his - wife arrived there in 1892 was the same building that was used to-day, sayit Canon Bean. In wartime Canon Bean was chaplain to the Expeditionary Force in Samoa. He is at present president of the Royal Humane Society.