Person    | Male  Born 1888  Died 31/10/1967

Charles Bernard Mortlock was a rector, a canon, a connoisseur of art, architecture and antiques, and a journalist in archaeology.

1929 appointed Archaeological Correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. He visited Flinders Petrie in Palestine. He also visited Samaria, Egypt, and Iraq where he visited Max Mallowan. For the Palestine Exploration Fund he was the first Honorary Secretary (1936-55) and Chair (1958-67).

1949 Mortlock published a collection of essays Inky Blossoms with an introduction by Sacheverell Sitwell.

Treasurer and Canon of Chichester Cathedral from 1950 until his death. Canon and rector of St Vedast-alias-Foster from 1953 where he directed the post-war restoration of the church. Information about his work restoring the church at Patrick Comerford. Died London.

Much of our information comes from the obit. at Taylor Francis online written for the Palestine Exploration Fund.

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