Charles Abdy Marcon
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Charles Abdy Marcon (22 September 1853 – 7 February 1953)[1][2] was an English clergyman, Master of Marcon's Hall, a private hall of Oxford University, from 1891 to 1918, then from 1918 Vicar of Kennington in south London.
Marcon was the third son of the Rev. Walter Marcon, Rector of Edgefield, Norfolk, a first-class cricketer who in his youth had played for Eton and Oxford. Born at Edgefield, he was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Charsley's Hall, Oxford, matriculating on 14 January 1874 at the age of twenty and graduating BA in 1878, MA in 1882.[3][4][5]
Career
Marcon was ordained a deacon of the Church of England in 1886[4] and served as curate of South Hinksey, Berkshire, from 1886 until 1899. In 1891 he took over as Master of Charsley's Hall, Oxford from William Henry Charsley, reopening it as Marcon's Hall in 1892. He remained as Master until 1918.[3][6]
In 1892 Marcon was admitted as a senior member of St Mary Hall and was ordained a priest in 1895. In 1903 he was elected to Oriel and in 1909 was appointed as chaplain of H. M. Prison Oxford.[3]
On giving up Marcon's Hall in 1918 he took up a Church of England benefice as Vicar of Kennington.[3]