Thomas Harry Chivers (1919-1994)

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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.

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