Ernest Stroud

Ernest Charles Frederick Stroud^[1] (20 May 1931 – 18 June 2014) was an English Anglican clergyman who was Archdeacon of Colchester from 1983 to 1997.^[2]

Stroud was educated at Merrywood Grammar School and Durham University. and ordained in 1961. He worked for Esso before ordination in 1961. After a curacy in South Kirkby he was Priest in charge at St Ninian, Whitby. He was Vicar of All Saints, Chelmsford then of St Margaret of Antioch, Leigh on Sea^[3] before his years as an Archdeacon. Stroud died on 18 June 2014, at the age of 83.^[4]