Mexborough and Swinton Times May 7, 1937
Vicar Leaving
Surprise For Mexborough Church People
To Take Temporary Post
The Mexborough Parish Church magazine for the month, published this week, contains a letter from the Vicar, the Rev he got R.A.Somerset, announced that in the near future he will be leaving the town, where he has been Vicar for the past seven years.
He writes
“My dear friends
for more than a year I have been feeling that the working was getting me on my friend, and at times, I should make room for a stronger and prop younger man. Now I have decided that, for the welfare of the parish, it would be best for me definitely to send my resignation to the patron.
We shall lose Mr and Mrs Woodhouse before long, and I cannot face the effort of carrying on for some months with only one curate.
“I am acutely conscious that I’m not been pulling my weight in the boat for some little time, but I have such a splendid crew that I do not think that we have begun to lose much weight in the race. My wife has taken an increasing share in the work, and his sister clergy and sister trot, and the whole army of workers, old and young have carried on with find courage and energy. I shall probably take a temporary post, when I shall have no great responsibility, and I hope by this means to remain here until my successor is ready to take over the work.”
Mr Somerset is a son of the late Mr Boscawen Somerset, rector of Crickhowell, South Wales, and belongs to the family of the Duke of Beaufort. His grandfather was Rev Lord William George Henry Somerset, six son of the fifth Duke, and his maternal grandfather was the second Lord Longford.
The family is directly descended from John of Gaunt.