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Ralph L. Brydges

Clergyman

Centurion, 1897–1946

Full Name Ralph Lionel Brydges

Born 21 September 1856 in Cheltenham, England

Died 18 April 1946 in Daytona Beach, Florida

Buried Saint James Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Proposed by Daniel M. Stimson and Stephen P. Nash

Elected 4 December 1897 at age forty-one

Century Memorial

Ralph Lionel Brydges. [Born] 1856. Clergyman. Forty-nine years a Centurion.

Born in England, he went to Canada as a young man, studied for the Protestant Episcopal Ministry and thereafter served as rector of churches in many parts of the world.

He was a man of strong and simple faith, of a gentle spirit and kindly sympathy—a minister of the Gospel working simply, very simply, and bravely as a Christian gentleman should, wherever he was called to work, as the man of God he truly was.

Source: Henry Allen Moe Papers, Mss.B.M722. Reproduced by permission of American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Philadelphia

Henry Allen Moe
Henry Allen Moe Papers, 1946 Memorials