Gresham Kirkby

The Reverend Gresham Kirkby
Born	Reginald Gresham Kirkby (1916-08-11)11 August 1916 Cornwall, England
Died	10 August 2006(2006-08-10) (aged 89)
Alma mater	University of Leeds College of the Resurrection
Religion	Christianity (Anglican)
Church	Church of England
Ordained	1942 (deacon) 1943 (priest)
Congregations served	St Paul's, Bow Common

Reginald Gresham Kirkby (1916–2006) was an English Anglican priest and anarchist socialist.

Biography

Kirkby was born in Cornwall on 11 August 1916. His mother and aunt were Methodist, but he was inclined towards Anglo-Catholicism from an early age. Kirby graduated from the University of Leeds and studied at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, West Yorkshire, where he became friends with Trevor Huddleston, in the 1940s. He was ordained in Manchester as a deacon in 1942 and as a priest in 1943 and served as vicar of St Paul's, Bow Common, London, from July 1951 to July 1994.

Kirby was an anarchist socialist (or anarcho-communist), an early supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and a member of the Committee of 100. He was influenced by Peter Kropotkin and Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.

Kirkby died on 10 August 2006.

Works

• "Kingdom Come: The Catholic Faith and Millennial Hopes". In Leech, Kenneth; Williams, Rowan. Essays Catholic and Radical. London: Bowerdean Press. 1983. Accessed 10 January 2019.

See also

• Christian communism
• Christian socialism

References

Bibliography

• Garnett, Jane; Keith, Michael (2014). "Interrogating Diaspora: Beyond the Ethnic Mosaic – Faith, Space, and Time in London's East End". In Gilman, Sander L. (ed.). Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Collaboration and Conflict in the Age of Diaspora. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. pp. 165–175. ISBN 978-988-8208-27-2.
• Harwood, Elain (1998). "Liturgy and Architecture: The Development of the Centralised Eucharistic Space". Twentieth Century Architecture (3): 50–74. ISSN 2054-3263. JSTOR 41859542.
• Ross, Duncan (2016). Detailed History of St Pauls', Bow Common. London: St Pauls', Bow Common. Retrieved 10 January 2019.

Further reading

• Leech, Kenneth (2009). Father Gresham Kirkby, 1916–2006: Priest of the Kingdom of God; A Personal Memoir. London: Anglo-Catholic History Society. OCLC 693944918.