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New page: The Rev '''Francis Kilvert''' (1840-1879) was a Church of England priest remeberred for his diaries, an evocative record of mid-Victorian rural society in England and Wales and a sensi...
The Rev '''Francis Kilvert''' (1840-1879) was a [[Church of England]] priest remeberred for his diaries, an evocative record of mid-Victorian rural society in England and Wales and a sensitive portrayal of his own spiritual and emotional yearnings. From 1865 to 1872 he was curate at Clro, [[Radnorshire]] (in the modern Welsh county of [[Powys]]); he subsequently served as curate at Langley Burrell (near [[Chippenham]] in [[Wiltshire]], again at Clyro, and as vicar at St Harmon in Powys, before becoming vicar of Bredwardine, [[Herefordshire]].