Person    | Male  Born 27/2/1888  Died 31/10/1967

Canon Charles Bernard Mortlock, M.A.

Categories: History, Religion

Countries: Egypt, Iraq, Israel/Palestine

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.

Our colleague Andrew Behan adds that Charles Bernard Mortlock was born on 27 February 1888, in Tottenham, Middlesex (now Greater London), the elder of the two children of James Charles Mortlock (1862-1934) and Kate Eleanor Mortlock née Coldrey (1858-1940). On 8 April 1888 he was baptised in the parish of Holy Trinity, Tottenham, where in the baptismal register his family were shown as residing in Tottenham and that his father was a bank clerk. His sister was Olive Katherine Mortlock (1890-1955).

In the 1901 census he is shown as Chas. Bernard Mortlock, aged 13 years, living at 33 Greyhound Road, Tottenham, Middlesex, together with his parents and his sister, who was shown as Olive Katharine Mortlock. His father's occupation was recorded as a banker's clerk.

When his father completed his 1911 census return form he was shown as Charles Bernard Mortlock, aged 21 years, single and an undergraduate at Cambridge University, living at 50 Coniston Road, Muswell Hill, Hornsey, Middlesex (now Greater London), an 8 roomed property, with his parents and his sister, who again was recorded as Olive Katharine Mortlock. His father listed himself as a bank clerk.

Electoral registers in 1913 list him at this address renting 2 rooms, first and ground floors at 10 shillings per week from his father.

Electoral registers from 1919 to 1924 show him as Mortlock, Charles Bernard (Rev) at 3 Adam Street, Westminster and this address was confirmed in the 1920 edition of the Post Office London Directory, Electoral registers from 1925 show him listed at 5 Adelphi Terrace House, Robert Street, London, WC2.

On 1 September 1933 he departed from Southampton, Hampshire on board the SS Baloeran of the Rotterdam Lloyd Royal Dutch Mail Line for Tangier, Morocco. The ship's manifest shows him as Charles Bernard Mortlock of 2 Robert Street, Adelphi, W.C., a journalist, aged 45 years, travelling as a 1st class passenger.

Kellys 1937 Directory of Essex, shows him at The Vicarage, Epping. However, electoral registers in 1938 show him as Mortlock, Charles Bernard (Rev) at Adelphi Terrace House, Robert Street, London, WC2, whilst the 1939 England and Wales Register confirms him as Clerk in Holy Orders at The Vicarage, Epping, Essex.

Electoral registers in 1955 show him at The Rectory, Foster Lane, London, EC2.

He died, aged 79 years on 31 October 1967, his death being registered in the 4th quarter of 1967 in the Stepney Registration District, London. Probate records confirm that his address had been St Vedast, Forster Lane, London, EC2 and that when probate was granted on 5 February 1968 his effects totalled £78,667.

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