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{{Portal|Christianity}}'''William John Wickins''', [[Honorary Chaplain to the King|KHC]] (1862<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/421/421591/421591.html cricketarchive]</ref>–1933) was [[Archdeacon of Calcutta]] from 1911 until 1913.<ref>' WICKINS, Ven. William John', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U198903, accessed 6 Dec 2015]</ref><br />
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Wickins was educated at [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]]<ref>[[John Venn]], [[John Archibald Venn]], ''[[Alumni Cantabrigienses|Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900]]'', Pt2 Vol 6 p458</ref> and [[ordained]] in 1885. After [[Curate|curacies]] in [[Burwell, Cambridgeshire|Burwell]] and [[Ely, Cambridgeshire|Ely]] he served with the [[Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment]] at [[Dum Dum]], [[Barrackpore]], [[Howrah]], [[Kasauli]], [[Fort William, India|Fort William]] and [[Darjeeling]]. In 1912 he was appointed an [[Honorary Chaplain to the King]].<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28638/page/6281/data.pdf London Gazette]</ref> On his return from [[India]] he was [[Vicar]] of [[Abbotsley]] then [[St Giles' Church, Cambridge|St. Giles with St. Peter, Cambridge]].<ref>[[Crockford's Clerical Directory]] 1929/30 p1397: [[Oxford]], [[Oxford University Press|OUP]], 1929</ref><br />
He died on 28 January 1933.<ref>''Deaths'' [[The Times]] (London, England), Monday, 30 January 1933; pg. 1; Issue 46355</ref><br />
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