March 29th

On this day in 1946 Archibald Ritchie Lawrence Glover died.  You may remember that just a little while ago, on March 17,  I reported his birth.  He is your 2nd great-uncle being the younger brother of William Fisken Glover who is your great grandfather - my dad's dad.

Archibald was raised in the manse of the congregational church in Horsley, a small village in Northumberland.  His father was the minister.  When he was in his early teens he was sent to Caterham which is in the south of England in the county of Surrey.  There was a school there Caterham School  which was founded in 1811 to provide a boarding education for the sons of congregational ministers. Archibald and his brother William both attended.  Archibald was fairly academic and gained the Cambridge Certificate

Once back up north in his late teens, he was a bank clerk - and occupation which he seems to have kept throughout his working life.  After the death of his father in 1902 he moved to Newcastle with his mother where they lived at 88 Ethel Street.  He was active in his church.  He was a deacon of St. James Congregational Church in central Newcastle.

Nearly two years after the death of his mother, Archibald married Caroline Anne Page in 1915 at age 34 and they lived at 6 Bentinck Crescent until moving to 29 Sanderson Road in Newcastle.  Archibald and Caroline had two children:  a son Archibald and a daughter Flora who died at age 25 as the result of falling off a horse.

I don't know the cause of Archibald's death but he died on this day in 1946 at age 65.  Probate records show that he left a nice tidy sum to Caroline.