1. Canon Stephen Warner was one of Britain's leading evangelists in the first half of the 20th century and the rector of Holy Trinity, Eastbourne for 28 years.
16 Facts About Stephen Warner
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Stephen Mortimer Warner was born in Eltham, Kent on 17 January 1873.
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Stephen Warner attended the London College of Divinity and graduated in Classics from Durham University.
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Stephen Warner was ordained a priest in 1897 and in the same year married Marion Gower Tooth, who was a cousin of Sir Robert Lucas Lucas-Tooth, 1st Baronet.
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Stephen Warner came to Holy Trinity, Eastbourne in 1919 and made the church a centre of Christian life and activity.
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Stephen Warner's Evangelical preaching and teaching were of a missionary character and he built up a fellowship among young and old alike which had a great influence in the town among residents and visitors.
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Canon Warner was later elected president of the Eastbourne branch of the CEZMS and Hon Secretary of the annual gathering of Evangelical clergy and Laymen of the Diocese of Chichester.
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Stephen Warner worked very hard for the United Mission in 1923 and had previously conducted the Mission in London but these duties took their toll.
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Stephen Warner then asked another vicar to conduct the rest of the service, before struggling to the vestry where he collapsed.
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Canon Stephen Warner continued his ministry with the help of a retired clergyman and acted as an RAF honorary chaplain to the Sea Cadets.
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The East window was comparatively new, having been given in 1934 in memory of the vicar's wife, Marion Stephen Warner, who had died that year.
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The congregation was beginning to recover from the ravages of war and by Christmas 1947, Canon Stephen Warner was preaching to a packed church of around 1,200.
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The 'Canon Stephen Warner' window is in the East end of what is the Chapel.
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Stephen Warner had a long association with and affection for Studland village in Dorset.
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Stephen Warner first travelled there with his wife Marion while on their honeymoon in Bournemouth in January 1897.
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Until his death in 1947, Canon Stephen Warner took the services at St Nicholas' on many occasions when the rector was away and is buried in the churchyard.