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Cranage, David Herbert Somerset (1886-1957), academic and anglican dean
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10 October 1866 - 22 October 1957
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Friend and employer of George Mallory.
David Herbert Somerset Cranage was the son of Dr Joseph Edward Cranage of Old Hall, Wellington, Shropshire and was educated at King's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1897 and he held curacies at Little Wenlock (1897–98) and Much Wenlock (1898–1902) in Shropshire. He was an academic at the University of Cambridge, where he lectured on mediaeval churches and was Secretary of the Local Lectures Syndicate, until his appointment as Dean of Norwich, a post he held for 19 years.
He appointed George Mallory to his position as lecturer and assistant secretary in the Cambridge University Board of Extramural Studies in 1923.
He died on 22 October 1957, aged 91.