Niel Nye
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Niel (Nathaniel Kemp) Nye[1] (4 November 1914 – 9 January 2003) was the Archdeacon of Maidstone from 1972[2] to 1979.[3]
Nye was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, King's College London and Ripon College Cuddesdon. He was ordained deacon in 1937, and priest in 1938.[4] After a curacy at St Peter on the St Helier Estate in the Diocese of Southwark he was a Chaplain in the RAF,[5] from 1940[6] during which he was a Prisoner of war in Italy.[7] He was Rector of Holy Trinity, Clapham from 1946 to 1954; Vicar of his old church on the St Helier Estate from 1954 to 60; and then Vicar of All Saints, Maidstone (Rural Dean) from 1960 until 1966; and then Tait Missioner for the Canterbury Diocese from 1966 until his appointment as Archdeacon.[8]
His Times obituary[9] described him as an
"influential pastor who combined commitment to his parishioners with deep personal devotion in an exemplary Anglican ministry which influenced several generations of clergy and laity alike"
