Basil Snell

The Ven. Basil Clark Snell (2 February 1907 – 12 June 1986)^[1] was an eminent Anglican priest in the mid twentieth century.^[2]

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Snell was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Queens' College, Cambridge.^[3] He was ordained in 1933^[4] and began his career with a curacy at St Kentigern's, Crosthwaite.^[5] After this he was Chaplain of Aldenham School and then Loretto School. During the war he was a Chaplain to the British Armed Forces.^[6] He was Rector of Tattingstone from 1947 to 1955 when he became a Residentiary Canon of St Edmundsbury Cathedral. He was Archdeacon of Bedford from 1958 until 1962^[7] and of St Albans from then to 1973.