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Sergeant Partrick Charles Alexander CARNEGY (17008)
West Lancashire Army Cyclist Corps Date of birth: 1st June 1893 Date of death: 28th May 1969 Died aged 75 Unknown
Patrick Charles Alexander Carnegy was born at Colwinstone in Glamorgan on the 1st of June 1893 the only son of Colonel Charles Gilbert Carnegy MVO, 107th Pioneers, Indian Army and Evelyn Mary (nee Collins-Pritchard) of The Grove, Sutton in Suffolk. He was educated at Hazelwood School until December 1906 where he was a member of the Choir. He went on to an unknown school. From the middle of 1913 he worked as a clerk at Graham Rowe & Co, General Merchants and lived at 34 Percy Street in Liverpool. He enlisted at Wellington Barracks, Wellington Road, Wavertree in Liverpool as Gunner 1934 in the Lancashire Heavy Brigade (TF), Royal Garrison Artillery on the 17th of January 1916. Following his medical examination, which revealed that he had a weakened left leg due to infantile paralysis, he was marked as fit for clerical work and on the 15th of February he transferred to the administrative branch of the West Lancashire Army Cyclist Corps as Private 17008. He was promoted to Sergeant on the 1st of April 1916. He was approved for a medical discharge on the 17th of January 1917 and was discharged due to sickness without a pension on the 9th of February 1917. On his discharge his address was “The Limes”, St Alban’s Road, Watford. He became a Freemason on the 7th of March 1917 and was member of the Liverpool Lodge. He went on to Hertford College Oxford where he was awarded a 3rd Class Degree in History in 1914, a BA in 1915 and a MA on the 27th of June 1918. He attended Bishop’s College in Cheshunt in 1917 and became a Deacon in 1918 and a Priest in 1919. He was Vicar of St Wilfred’s Church at Harehills in Leeds from 1921 to 1923 and at St Ada’s in Leeds from 1923 to 1926. He was married at St Alban’s Church in Leeds to Joyce Eleanor (nee Townsley) on the 17th of April 1928; they had three children, Patrick Charles, born on the 23rd of September 1940, Colin David born on the 16th of August 1942 and Daphne Joyce born on the 3rd of March 1947. He accepted the position of Provost of Blackburn in January 1932 and was Vicar of All Saints Church in Lees in 1939. He was Vicar at Spalding in Lincolnshire from 1945 to 1949 before moving to Rugby in Warwickshire from 1949 to 1951. He served as Canon Emeritus of Coventry Cathedral from 1954 to 1961. He wrote a series of articles in the Times newspaper which were published in 1974 under the title “Christianity Revalued”. He also wrote “Our Fellowship in the Gospel” published in 1944. He was Canon Missioner of Wakefield, served on the Archbishop’s Evangelical Commission and was Vicar of Spalding from 1945 to 1949. He was appointed as Rector of Rugby from 1949 to 1951 where he trained curates. He was Canon of Coventry from 1954 to 1961. Canon Roger Lloyds wrote of him: - “There were some who definitely felt Carnegy’s austerity and fought a little shy of it. But nobody was in fact kinder or more understanding than he was.” He died in Lincolnshire and was buried on the 2nd of June in a service at Spalding Parish Church.