Friday, June 27, 2008

John Basil Lee Jellicoe


Ian Seccombe of Chailey has kindly sent me photographs of the grave of John Basil Lee Jellicoe and his wife, Bethia Theodora, in St Peter's churchyard, Chailey. Basil, as he was known, served briefly in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) towards the end of the First World War, but it is his campaigning work in the slums of north London that he is - or certainly was - chiefly remembered for.
 
Like his father, he was a church of England clergyman, but he died at the young age of 36. His wife outlived him by a quarter of a century.



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