Thomas Harry Chivers (1919-1994)
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Biography
| 1919 (24th October) | Born. |
| 1934 (April) - 1937 (July) | Attended full-time course in Musical Instrument Technology and Principles of Radio at the Northern Polytechnic, Holloway, London, N.7. |
| 1951 | Attends Church Army training college in Maiden Erleigh, Reading, Berkshire |
| 1955 (25th June) | Marries Sylvia Sharman. |
| 1960 | Graduates from Clifton Theological College |
| 1961 | Ordained in Southwark |
| 1960-1964 | Curate of St Matthew's, Surbiton |
| 1963 (31st December) | Birth of first son, Paul. |
| 1964 (13th April) | Moves as curate from St. Matthew's, Surbiton to St. Barnabas', Keighley, West Yorkshire. |
| 1970 (3rd December) | Becomes vicar of St. Mary The Virgin, Oxenhope, West Yorkshire. |
| 1971 (13th June) | Birth of second son, John. |
| 1972 (19th December) | Birth of third son, Peter. |
| 1987 (31st October) | Retires and moves to Bradford. |
| 1989 (23rd September) | Tom's wife, Sylvia, dies of cancer at the age of 55. |
| 1994 (9th July) | Dies of cancer, aged 74. |
About My Family and Me
From humble Yorkshire lad to honorary Midlander, I've been in the making since 1971 and still haven't made it yet.
Born in Bradford in 1971 and raised in the village of Oxenhope in Brontë country, I attended Coventry University between 1990 and 1994, where I studied Modern Languages (German and French as core languages and Russian ab initio), with a third year spent between Potsdam, Germany and Grenoble, France.
I met Emma Paddison in 1993, we married in 1996 and now have two girls, Murron (born 1998) and Philippa (born 2001).
I live in Nuneaton, Warwickshire and am webmaster for a CAD/CAM software company in Coventry. So much for the Modern Languages degree!
I have played the drums since 1981 and was a member of Coventry originals band BAiT between its birth in 1996 and its demise in 2007. I now play classical guitar and mandolin for my own amusement.