Henry Kingsley Archdall

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Henry Kingsley Archdall (March 2, 1886 – February 27, 1976) was an Australian academic and clergyman. Born in Sydney, New South Wales, his education began at Sydney Grammar School. He then completed a BA at St Paul's College of the University of Sydney in 1908, before moving to the United Kingdom, and completing another First Class BA, and then an MA at Trinity College, Cambridge. During this time at Cambridge, Archdall was to follow in the footsteps of his father and become ordained as an Anglican priest. It was also during his time at Cambridge that he married his wife, Laura Madden, who was also the child of an Anglican priest.

Archdall moved back to Australia, and became headmaster of a number of schools in Australia and New Zealand, before returning to the UK in 1935 and becoming principal of Wellington College, Berkshire. In 1938, he came Principal and Professor of Theology at St David's College, Lampeter (now the University of Wales, Lampeter), the oldest university institution in Wales, a post he would hold until 1953.

After his departure from Lampeter, Archdall remained in South Wales, but held various visiting lectureships throughout the world, including one at Yale University, and Berkeley Divinity school. He died on February 27, 1976.

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Preceded by Maurice Jones

Principal of St David's College 1938–1953

Succeeded by John Roland Lloyd Thomas