George Oliver at Grimsby

The Lincolnshire Parish Correspondence of John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln 1827-53, ed. R. W. Ambler, Lincoln Record Society, 94 (2006), includes (pp. 57-61) correspondence with the nineteenth-century Masonic ideologue Revd George Oliver concerning a petition brought against him by William Betts as Chairman of the Select Vestry at Grimsby. Betts requested that the evening service at Grimsby be held at 2.30pm instead of 6pm, and claimed that Oliver, as curate of Grimsby, preferred the later time to fit in with his duties as Vicar of Clee. Oliver responded with a lengthy memorial outlining his achievements as curate of Grimsby.