Mexborough and Swinton Times September 16 1939

The wedding is to take place at Sheffield Cathedral on the morning of Thursday, September 28th, of the Rev. Edward St. Leger Blakeney, only son of Canon J. St. Leger Blakeney, Rector of Wombwell and Rural Dean of Wath-on-Dearne, and Mrs. Blakeney, The Rectory, Wombwell, to Miss Dorothy Talbot Easter, elder daughter of the Rev. A. J. Talbot Easter, Residentiary Canon of Sheffield Cathedral, and of Mrs. Easter, of Canon’s Lodge, Crookhill, Sheffield.

The ceremony will be performed by the bridegroom’s father, and Canon Talbot Easter will give his daughter away.

The Rev. E. St. Leger Blakeney, who is 28 years of age, was born at Anston, near Worksop, when his father was Vicar there. He was educated at Trent College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, whence he proceeded to Ridley Hall. While at Cambridge he had over-sight of a church at Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire, and his first curacy after ordination in 1935 was at Wath-on-Dearne, for two years under the Rev. L. E. Meredith, and later under the present Vicar, the Rev. B. Russell. He left Wath in 1937 to become Succentor at Sheffield Cathedral, and at the beginning of this year was appointed Vicar of St. James’s and St. Christopher’s, Shiregreen, Sheffield, called the “Children’s Church” because most of the money for building was subscribed by children of the diocese. He is probably the youngest incumbent in the diocese. Mr. Blakeney is a keen sportsman with a liking for football, cricket and tennis.

Miss Easter, who is 19, was educated at Sheffield High School, and has helped her father in a secretarial capacity. She has been attached to the Girl Guide movement.