Crockford's Clerical Directory, 2004/2005

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 – straight from the Church Commissioners' central pay‐roll in...