William Donne (priest)

William Donne (29 October 1845 – 5 March 1914)^[1] was Archdeacon of Huddersfield from 1892^[2] to 1913.

Baines was born into an ecclesiastical family^[3] in Oswestry; educated at Wellington College and Brasenose College, Oxford; and ordained in 1876.

He was the Curate in charge of the Winchester College Mission from 1876 to 1881; and then held incumbencies at Limehouse, Great Yarmouth and Wakefield. He was an Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria and then King Edward VII.