Tuesday 06th of January 2009
Rev. Thomas Oliver Albert Sellick
Mr Sellick, who was Curate of Street, 1922-28, was born in Merthyr Tydfil.
He attended the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, in 1916, and studied at Leeds University, where he gained his BA degree in 1920. His theological training was a one year course at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, in 1921.
He was ordained Deacon in 1922. After a long curacy in Street he served as Curate of St Mary Magdalen, Taunton, for about a year, 1928 to 1929, and then became Curate of St Cuthbert, Wells, in 1929 being in charge of Wookey Hole.
He married Caroline Mabel Marshall in Wells in that year.
He died on 28th August 1961.
His younger brother, the Revd. Ambrose Claude Albert Sellick, was born 31 Dec. 1909, also in Merthyr Tydfil.
He studied Philosophy at the London School of Economics, and gained a Third Class BA degree in 1934. He went on to his theological training in Llandaff at St Michael's College in 1934.
The Bishop of Salisbury ordained him Deacon in 1935, on behalf of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, to be Curate of Doulting. In 1938 he left to be Curate of Yeovil.
He married Helen Britten in 1940 in Wells.
In 1944 he became Vicar of Compton Dando, and then in 1946 Rector of the tiny hamlet of Burnett near Keynsham. The population in 1966 was only 41, and it is now part of Keynsham parish. From 1946 to 1954 he was Rector of Corton Denham near Sherborne, a slightly bigger parish with 377 people in 1967. From 1954 to 1962 he was Priest in Charge of West Pennard and Vicar of West Bradley with Lottisham.
In 1962 he became Rector of Evercreech and two other small churches.
He died on 23rd January 1979.
The Sellick brothers were cousins of John Henry Sellick (b. Cannington, Bridgwater 22 Nov 1893), whose son Harry provided some of this information.