{"id":15897,"date":"2021-03-24T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/?page_id=15897"},"modified":"2022-08-23T20:05:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T19:05:24","slug":"ronald-cooling-1903-1977","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/?page_id=15897","title":{"rendered":"Reverend Ronald Cooling (1903-1977). Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Martham."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rev. Ronald Cooling (1903-1977)<\/strong>. Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Martham.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Signature of Rev. Cooling taken from St Mary<\/a><\/em> the Virgin registers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Rev. Cooling was born on 26th<\/sup> September 1903 in Hull, Yorkshire. His parents were George & Alice Cooling and he grew up at 5 St Georges Avenue, St Georges Road, Hull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He remained a bachelor all his life. In 1939 he was lodging at 55 Britannia Road, Norwich where he was a Clerk in Holy Orders. In 1955 he was the Registrar of the Church Commissioners for England and as such signed the agreement to sell glebe land in School Road<\/a><\/em>, Martham, that had been allotments, for house building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was the vicar at St Mary\u2019s<\/a><\/em> from 1968 until 1976 and local people have fond memories of  a small man who could hardly see over his car steering wheel. He was also an accomplished model engineer and had a well stocked workshop complete with lathe upstairs in the Vicarage<\/a><\/em>. He made model trains of which he had at least three, two of which he built himself from scratch and he had a railway line for the trains to go up and down the Vicarage <\/a><\/em>garden.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ronald died on 15th<\/sup> April 1977 whilst living at 3 Ranworth Drive, Ormesby St Margaret and was cremated at Gorleston Crematorium where his ashes were scattered. He was 73.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Peter Noon of Herman’s Hermits; Rev Cooling & George Fordyce, the man from the Pru. C1968<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Sources: Appointment information courtesy of the: Clergy of the Church of England Database at https:\/\/theclergydatabase.org.uk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rev. Ronald Cooling (1903-1977). Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Martham. Rev. Cooling was born on 26th September 1903 in Hull, Yorkshire. His parents were George & Alice Cooling and he grew up at 5 St Georges Avenue, St Georges Road, Hull. He remained a bachelor all his life. In 1939 he was lodging at … Continue reading “Reverend Ronald Cooling (1903-1977). Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Martham.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15897","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t