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George Averan Jose (15 December 1868 – 26 November 1956) was a canon of St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide, Australia, archdeacon of Mount Gambier and Dean of Adelaide. Born at Bristol, UK, Jose was educated at Clifton College, and Worcester College, Oxford where he obtained his BA in 1903 and was awarded his MA in 1906. He left England for Australia in 1888 and after marrying Clara Ellen Stuart (d.1925) in 1890 they went together to China in 1891 where Jose worked as a lay CMS missionary until 1899. His brother was Arthur Wilberforce Jose. In 1900 Jose won a Davis Chinese Scholarship to Oxford University. After ordination in England and curacies at Gloucester and Oxford he and his wife went to Adelaide in South Australia in 1903 where he took charge of St Cyprian's, Lower North Adelaide. In 1906 he was appointed as rector of Christ Church, North Adelaide where he has several alter boys under him. He was appointed a Canon of Adelaide in 1918 and Archdeacon of Adelaide in 1929. He resigned the incumbency of Christ Church in 1933 to become Dean of Adelaide until his retirement in 1953. During World War I Jose was Chaplain to the Australian Military Forces including Deputy Senior Chaplain 1916-18. His son Wilfred was killed in action in France but another son Ivan was awarded the Military Cross. He had another son, Gilbert Jose, who was killed in World War II. Jose compiled a three-volume history of ''The Church of England in South Australia'' (1937, 1954, 1955); his other writings included ''Annals of Christ Church'' (1921) and ''The Story of Jesus Christ'' (1930). He died in Adelaide. ==References== * *''Very Rev. G. H. Jose'' The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 28 November 1956; pg. 12; Issue 53700. (276 words) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Jose」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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