Mexborough & Swinton Times – 27 September 1941

Vicar Leaving

Kilnhurst to Shiregreen

The Rev. Ernest James Cheverton B.A., Vicar of Kilnhurst for the past four years, has accepted the living of St. James with St. Christopher, Shiregreen, Sheffield.

Mr. Cheverton is a graduate of St. David’s College, Lampeter, where he gained honours in the history school. Subsequently, he taught from 1927 to 1929 on the staff of a private school near Manchester.

In 1929 he was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of Liverpool, and took his title at St. Anne’s. Stanley, Liverpool. The following year he was ordained Priest by the Bishop of Liverpool, and in 1932 accepted charge of St. Gabriel’s Church, Huyton Quarry, in the parish of Huyton, Liverpool. From Huyton he moved in 1935 to the Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton, where he was senior assistant before coming to Kilnhurst.

The Vicar is very keen on work among young people, and has organised strong young fellowships in each of the parishes in which he has served. He has also been actively associated with Scout, Guide and Church Lads’ Brigade movements. Other activities in which Mr Cheverton has taken an interest are amateur drama and sport. He is keen on football, cricket, tennis, hockey and badminton, and has run football, cricket, tennis and badminton clubs in his various parishes with success.

He is married and has two daughters.