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Joseph Coulter

Anglican Archdeacon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ15039918 ↗
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Joseph William Coulter was an Anglican priest: the Archdeacon of Wilts until 1951.

Born in 1867, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained in 1897 and began his career with curacies in Ferns and Swanage. He held incumbencies at Langton Matravers, Bridport and Calne.

He died on 10 April 1956.

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This entry incorporates text from “Joseph Coulter” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.