PELLY, Richard Lawrence. Coldharbour, Surrey 18.7.1886 — Salisbury, Wiltshire 7.4.1976. Rev. British. Son of Rev. Canon Richard Arnold Pelly (1856–1949) and Margaret Jane Buxton (1859–1903). Educated at Marlborough College. Studies at Cambridge (Clare College), B.A. 1910, M.A. 1912. In 1915-18 served as army chaplain. In 1918-26 Vice-Principal of Bishop’s College in Calcutta. In 1929-33 Rector of St. Paul’s School in Darjeeling. Back in the U.K. 1933-36 Vicar at Shoreditch, London and 1937-45 Canon of St. Nicholas’s Cathedral, Newcastle. In 1945-54 Rector at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, and 1952-76 Canon of Salisbury. Married 1927 Rosa Salome Wordsworth (1900–1995), four daughters and two sons.
Publications: Kaṭha Upaniṣad. Introduction, text, translation and notes. 73 p. Calcutta 1924.
– Theological publications.
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