J. M. J. Fletcher
Encyclopedia
The Reverend James Michael John Fletcher MA (Cantab.) (1850-1934), was an English
clergyman of the Church of England
, author
and historian
.
England
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clergyman of the Church of England
Church of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
, author
Author
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and historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
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Career
- Vicar of TideswellTideswellTideswell is a village and civil parish in the Peak District of Derbyshire, in England. It lies east of Buxton on the B6049, in a wide dry valley on a limestone plateau, at an altitude of above sea level, and is within the District of Derbyshire Dales...
- Canon of SalisburySalisburySalisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England and the only city in the county. It is the second largest settlement in the county...
- Fellow of the Royal Historical SocietyRoyal Historical SocietyThe Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868. The premier society in the United Kingdom which promotes and defends the scholarly study of the past, it is based at University College London...
Publications
- Distinguished Alumni of Derby School (Derby Reporter, 1872)
- A Guide to Tideswell (1902)
- Mrs Wightman of Shrewsbury: The Story of a Pioneer in Temperance Work (Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1906)
- A Historical and Descriptive Guide to the Churches of Shrewton, Maddington and Rollestone in the County of Wiltshire by J.M.J. Fletcher and Arthur S. Robins (1920)
- The Boy Bishop at Salisbury and Elsewhere (Salisbury, 1921)
- The Black Death in Dorset (1923)
- Notes on the Cathedral Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Salisbury (Cathedral Chapter, Salisbury, 1924)
- The Stained Glass in Salisbury Cathedral , in Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine vol. xlv (1930)
- Old Belfry in the Close, in Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine vol. xlvii (1932)
- Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury, in Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine vol. xlix
- Dorset Worthy, Wlliam Stone, Royalist and Divine (1615-1685) (in Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club volume 36)
- Dorset Royal Peculiar (in Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club volume 38)
- Sir Thomas Dackomb, Priest, Rector of Tarrant Gunville, 1549-1567, a Dorset Bibliophile (in Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club volume 44)
- Century of Dorset Documents (in Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club volume 44)
- Trio of Dorchester Worthies (in Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club volume 44)
- Dorset Men in London at the End of the 17th Century (in Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club volume 54)
- Thomas Bennet (1924)
- Incumbents of Salisbury Churches during the Commonwealth
- The Plague-Stricken Derbyshire Village: or What to See in and around Eyam (1930)
- Bishop Giles of Bridport, 1257-1262 in Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine vol. xlvi (1934)
- Chained Books in Dorset and Elsewhere (Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Vol. 35)
- The Marriage of St Cuthburga, who was afterwards Foundress of the Monastery at Wimborne