Frank Glanvil Glanfield LL.B.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Frank Glanvil Glanfield LL.B. was born on 19 October 1878 at Yarmouth, NFK, ENG; registered Yarmouth.
     He married Kathleen Mussen circa February 1920 at Worcester registered, WOR, ENG.
     He died on 11 November 1955 at Tunbridge Wells, KEN, ENG, (when age calculated as 77); with obituary in The Catholic Herald 25 Nov 1955:
Mr. F. G. Glanfield
The death has occurred at his home in Tunbridge Wells of Mr. Frank Glanvil Glanfield, LL.B., aged 77, for 25 years Registrar of the High Court of Justice at Birmingham County Court until 1947, and a Life Governor of Birmingham University.
Mr. Glanfield came of an old East Anglian family. His ancestor Ranulph de Glanyile founded the Augustinian Priory of Butley in 1171, and eleven years later the Premonstratensian Monastery of Leiston Abbey, as well as a hospital at Sudbury.
Another ancestor, William de Glanvile, founded Bromholm Priory in 1113 for Cluniac monks.
Mr. Glanfield was a convert, and was received into the Church with his two young sons by Fr. Denis Shell at the Birmingham Oratory in 1937, having been preceded by his wife and daughter.
Requiem Mass was offered by his younger son Fr. Francis Glanfield, ordained this year and now at St. Joseph's, Luton, and served by his elder son, Bernard.
     His estate was probated on 2 February 1956 indexed as:
GLANFIELD Frank Glanvil of The Clock House Sandown Park Tunbridge Wells died 11 November 1955 Probate Lewes 2 February to Kathleen Glanfield widow Bernard Glanfield sales representative and the reverend Francis Hugh Glanfield clerk. Effects £14974 16s 5d.