Foster Grey Blackburne, MA (Prestwich, 3 December 1838 – 1 February 1909[1]) was Archdeacon of Manchester[2] from 1905 until his death.[3]
He was educated at Marlborough and Brasenose College, Oxford[4] and ordained in 1863.[5] He began his ecclesiastical career with curacies in Bebbington and Chester. After this he was Rector of Nantwich[6] from 1872[7] to 1894; and then of Bury[8] from 1894[9] until his death.[10]