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George Henry Greville Anson (20 February 1820, in Marylebone – 9 February 1898, in Winchester) was a clergyman and member of the Anson family. He was Rector of St James's, Birch-in-Rusholme and served as Archdeacon of Manchester from 30 May 1870 to 1890.

The son of Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet, he was educated at Eton College and Exeter College, Oxford and ordained in 1843. After a curacy at Leeds Parish Church he was, for many years, the incumbent at St James, Rusholme, retiring from the posts of Rector, and Archdeacon of Manchester, in 1890.

He married Augusta Agnes Hook on 27 June 1848.

References

1. Deaths The Times (London, England), Thursday, Feb 10, 1898; pg. 1; Issue 35436
2. Mancuniensis
3. National Archives
4. ^ "The New Archdeacon of Manchester". Manchester Faces and Places. II (1): 1. 10 October 1890.
5. Burke's Peerage 2003, page 110
6. ‘ANSON, Ven. George Henry Greville’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 24 June 2013
7. ‘UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE’ The Standard (London, England), Friday, January 27, 1843; Issue 5789
8. ‘ORDINATIONS’ The Morning Post (London, England), Friday, December 22, 1843; Issue 22758
9. Rusholme Archive
10. British History On-line
11. National Archives
12. ‘Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries The Bradford Observer; and Halifax, Huddersfield, and Keighley Reporter (Bradford, England), Thursday, July 06, 1848; pg. 5; Issue 735’

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