HADFIELD COLLEGE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 424, 5 February 1909, Page 4

HADFIELD COLLEGE.

I THE NEWLY-APPOINTED WARDEN."- • Nows was : recoived yesterday (toys \ oui"■: •• Pahiatua correspondent) that the Rev* A'i W. ■■. i - : H. Compton, M.A., Cambridge, who has Ijeoii vicar: at Mangatainoka for upwards of two years; has.been, appointed warden of the' Had-,, field Memorial .Hostel ,'at KelbUrne.;: -Mr. Comptori ;.\vafi : mathematical sciiolar ;atod.-ex- : hibitioner, ;Eumianuel. Colioge,V Cambridge, ; took his B.'AV, degree 'in-1890 .as-fifth senior / 'optinie in the mathematical tripos, ill ISOiJ %va3 " ' placed second. class in;the theological; tripos, l; - ■part I,: ordained deaCon the- same year, ,priost 'in -1893 in Exeter Cathedral, and was. Api::. pointed' to ..the;curacy ofiiSt-. yMary.; MajoW ■' Exeter. 4 ,-- Ho took his JLA, degree in ISO!.'. - For'' live years ho was vicar of -Waimate» .Plains. 'Tarauaki pai'Ociiial district, two yeara 1; '.in tho Wangamii district,: and one year chap- W'" lain; in.- the. Collegiate School, 1 ■ Ho was ;.aiso chaplain to. the forces in South '"••• l Africa; in ,11)02. ' . Compton ..takes a--keen - interest in all athletics,, is very musical, 'and' i : will be keenly missed on leaving his present " district.; v r;: ; . >' Tho VcneraWo Archdeacon Fancourt lias tilled :the.' position ;-of acting-warden , at, tha \ hostel since it t was'opened. last.year.