Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

Ripon, Selby, Pateley Bridge, and Wetherby. He would attend annual camps of the battalion in various parts of Yorkshire, but his particular concern was that part of the battalion that was known as the York and Harrogate Rifles. The Army and Navy Gazette in May 1899 announced his resignation of the appointment after 11 years in post. It seems a long time to have just been an acting chaplain but perhaps a full chaplaincy would have required him to give up other clerical posts. His first of several civic chaplaincies was in 1886 to 1887 when he was chaplain to Captain Thomas Slingsby, of Scriven Park, High Sheriff of Yorkshire and he accompanied the captain to civic events throughout Yorkshire, but especially at banquets in York and Leeds. His next important chaplaincy was to be chaplain in 1890 to 1891 to Alderman Philip Mathews, Lord Mayor of York, in a period which saw the death of two consecutive Archbishops of York, a visit to the city of the Duke of Clarence (himself to die in 1892), and then the sudden death through typhoid of the Lord Mayor himself. Towards the end of 1891 he became chaplain to the High Sheriff of York, Councillor Lancelot Foster, and, at sittings of the assizes was entitled to sit alongside the high court judge York 55 A ‘military Sunday’ in York passes the Minster