Claude Blagden


Claude Martin Blagden was an eminent Anglican Bishop of Peterborough in the first half of the 20th century.

He was born onApril 1874, the fifth son and youngest child of the eight children of Henry Charles Blagden and Emma Ladd Pilcher . His father was the Vicar of Milcombe, and Claude was born in the vicarage. When his parents moved into the home it was newly built and today is privately owned and known as Milcombe House. Near the vicarage is the Church of St Laurence which was built of local Horton stone in the 13th century and was restored several times, most significantly just before the Blagdens moved in.

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