Lives in Cricket No 45 - Brief Candles 2

98 The oldest of them all had not been to any theological college, and the reason for his ordination taking place in North Yorkshire is not recorded. His earlier education had been at Repton School (1875-79) and at Trinity College Cambridge, where he took his BA in 1883. By the time he took his MA in 1888, he was already installed as a parish priest. In his early years in the church, Alfred moved frequently from place to place. His first curacy was at Holy Trinity Church at Ripon (1886-1890); next he moved south to become curate at St Giles, Ashtead in Surrey (1890- 94), before returning north to become ‘Perpetual Curate’ at Oulton in West Yorkshire (between Leeds and Wakefield; 1894-98), and then turning east, to take full responsibility for a parish for the first time when he served as Vicar of Honingham with East Tuddenham, in Norfolk (just west of Norwich) from 1898 until 1900. But it seems as though he was just biding his time until he could be offered the posts he really wanted, back in or close to Radnorshire. Between 1900 and 1902 it seems that he was not officially attached to any Green-Price’s two longest ministries were at the churches of St Philip and St James, Tarrington (top), and St Andrew’s, Norton (bottom).