John Athawes

The son of The Reverend John Athawes, he was born in December 1837 at Loughton, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Winchester College,^[1] before going up to Clare College, Cambridge.^[2] After graduating from Cambridge, Athawes took holy orders in the Anglican Church in 1862, being ordained as a deacon. He took his curacy at Loughton in the same year, which he held until 1864. For the next three years he held the curacy at East Hendred.^[1] Athawes was appointed the headmaster of St John's Middle School at Kennington in 1867, a post he remained in until 1881. He spent 1882 in Italy as a chaplain at Bologna.^[2] Athawes returned to Loughton in 1883 to take up the post of reverend, which he held until his death at Loughton at Tenbury Wells in October 1915.^[3] Beside his ecclesiastical duties, Athawes was the diocesan inspector of schools for Oxford and was a justice of the peace for Buckinghamshire. He was also chairman of both the Newport Pagnell Board of Guardians and the Rural District Council.^[2]