CRAWFORD, Robert Glasgow, Rev (1887-1959)
Assembly memorial minute, 1959
The Rev. Robert Glasgow Crawford was born at sea on February 12th, 1887, his birth being registered at Brisbane.
Having graduated Bachelor of Arts at the Sydney University and having completed his theological course in the Sydney Theological Hall, he was ordained at Warren, N.S.W., in 1915.
He volunteered as a chaplain in the First World War and served in that capacity from 1917 till after the Armistice. Most of his postwar charges were in New South Wales, including Upper Murray, Stanmore, Wentworth, Holbrook and Berrigan, which he left in 1952 and was inducted to his only Victorian charge, that of Connewarre-Torquay, from where he resigned in 1955.
He has been described as one of God’s gentlemen, with a deep love for the ministry of the Word and the Sacraments.
His death occurred in Sydney on June 17th, 1959.
To his relatives the Assembly expresses sincere sympathy.
Gender
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