John Wakeford (ord. 1884; d. 1930), popular preacher and missioner; appointed vicar of St Margaret's, Annfield Plain, Liverpool, 1893, by Gladstone; canon and precentor of Lincoln, and archdeacon of Stow, 1910; found guilty of adultery in the Lincoln consistory court, Feburary 1921; verdict upheld on appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; deprived of his preferments but not his orders; protested against the decision in a nationwide campaign; detained in an asylum and took his own life. See also Volume 86.

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• 4 Feb 1921
• 5 Feb 1921
• 7 Feb 1921
• 10 Feb 1921
• 8 Apr 1921
• 26 Apr 1921
• 27 Apr 1921
• 28 Apr 1921