Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 07 April 1933

Hartlepool Benefice for Swinton Man

The Rev. Arthur Cyril Hague, B.A., has been appointed vicar of Holy Trinity, Hartlepool.

Mr. Hague is the second son of Mr. Thomas Hague and the late Mrs. Hague, 45, Church Street. Swinton. While living here he was associated with the Rovers section of the 1st Swinton Troop of Boy Scouts and acted as lay reader at the Parish Church.

Mr. Hague was keenly interested in football, tennis and hockey. Before studying for the ministry he was on the clerical staff of Hadfields Steel Works, Sheffield.

During the war he enlisted in the York and Lancaster Regiment, and afterwards studied, with the aid of the Army Service Ordination Fund, at Knutsford, being going to Durham University where he took his degree in 1924.

Mr. Hague was ordained deacon in the same year at Durham Cathedral and as priest in 1926.

From 1924-28 he served as a curate in the parish of Shadforth and was in charge of the Low Fell Mission. Later he was licensed to a curacy at St. Andrew’s Bishop Auckland.

He has been presented to the living of Holy Trinity, Hartlepool, by the Bishop of Durham.