Rev Andrew Charles NUGEE [9704]

  General Notes:

1895 Birth: December quarter, Bingham 7b 446 - NUGEE Andrew Charles.

Nugee Andrew Charles (Mr Stone, B.)
Son of Rev Francis Edward Nugee, Rector of Street Martins Leicester and Hon Canon of Peterborough; SP 1913; Jnr Sch 1909; F. xi 1913; S viii 1913-14; left 1914; temp. Lt 9th Bn Rifle Brigade 1914; res on account of wounds 1916; served in France 1915, wounded; 1914-15 Star, War and Victoria medals; Magdalen College, Oxford, 1914 and 1918-19; BA 1919; MA 1922; Bishops Hostel, Lincoln 1920-21; HO 1921; Cur of St Thomas Winchester, from 1921. Married 1920 Frances Elizabeth, daughter of the late Rev Richard Arthur Walls, of Boothby Hall, Burgh, Lincs. C/o 29 Southgate Street Winchester
St Peter's College, Radley Register.

Lt Nugee Wounded.
Canon Nugee, vicar of St Martins, Leicester, has received intimation that his son, Lt AG Nugee, of the rifle Brigade, has been seriously wounded in the head arm and leg was serving with the British Expeditionary Force in Flanders.
Grantham Journal 7 August 1915

Andrew was blinded while serving in WWI but was rehabilitated to lead as normal a life as possible. He followed his father into the church and was vicar of the parishes of Littlehampton and Bradfield on the Green in Northamptonshire. He became rural Dean for Preston in 1932 then took up the chaplaincy of St Dunstan's training centre in hospital during WWII. He returned to parish life and finished his working life as Rector of Kencot and Vicar of Broadwell OXF.

New Vicar of Houghton.
An Ex-Service Man.
The Rev Andrew Charles Nugee, curate of Bramley, Guildford, since 1926, has accepted the living of Little Houghton cum Brafield, and will take up residence at the vicarage in May. The patron of the living is Mr Christopher Smythe, JP, DL.
Mr Nugee, who lost the sight of one eye in the war, was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and Chancellors School, Lincoln. He was ordained deacon in 1921 and priest in 1922. From 1921 to 1926 he was curate of St Thomas's Winchester, and since then has been at Bramley.
Ref: Northampton Mercury 14 March 1930.

Church News
New Appointment.
It is announced that the King has presented to the Rev Andrew Charles Nugee the living of Eckington with Renishaw, in the Derby Diocese, vacant by the resignation of Canon W R Hewson. Mr Nugee has been Vicar of Little Houghton since 1930 and rural Dean of Preston for five years.
Ref: Derby Daily Telegraph 22 October 1938

Braille in the Pulpit.
The newly appointed Rector of Eckington, the Rev Andrew Charles Nugee, who was inducted into the living on Saturday in succession to Canon Hewson, is one of the victims of the war. Injuries on the battlefield in France so affected his eyesight that he became an inmate of St Dunstan's, where it was necessary for him to learn Braille. In this he soon became proficient, and he still finds it necessary to have recourse to this means of reading Holy Writ. At the services yesterday he used Braille both at the lectern and in the pulpit. His induction service, by the way, was attended in force by the Eckington branch of the British Legion, to whom his work for St Dunstan's had become known.
Ref: Derby Daily Telegraph 12 December 1938.

Blind Chaplain.
The Bishop of Hereford will formally license St Dunstan's new blind Chaplain at Church Stretton Shropshire, on November 6. The blind Chaplain is the Rev Andrew Charles Nugee, and he's the first so afflicted to be appointed. He was at Oxford, studying for the civil service when the last war broke out, and he took a commission In the Rifle Brigade. He was a lieutenant when he was wounded at Hooge, and lost his sight completely.
He went to St Dunstan's "to learn to be blind"and did so effectually enough to return to Oxford and take his BA degree in 1919. He felt the call of Holy Orders, and was ordained deacon in 1921 and priest in 1922. He has held curacy is in Hampshire and Surrey, and in 1938 became Rector of Eckington, Sheffield. He has resigned that office in order to become Chaplain to the famous institution where he acquired his "second sight". Mr Nugee reads the lessons most effectively in Braille. St Dunstan's is already receiving fresh student patients from the battlefields of the Middle East.
Ref: Nottingham Evening Post 29 October 1942


1977 Death: December quarter, Cheltenham 22 1566 - NUGEE Andrew Charles, born 28 Oct 1895.

Nugee Rev Andrew Charles of Downington Green Lechlade Gloucester died 22 October 1977. Probate Oxford 6 March 1978 effects £20,087. 782802111T.
National Probate Calendar

  Research Notes:

The Rev Andrew Nugee, left a memoir "Through a Glass Darkly" which was subsequently published by his family.
Bank House Books & Media 2016.
A substantial work running to almost 500 pages it covers his life up to his retirement aged 72 on 1^st Nov 1967.
The narrative consists mainly of a detailed telling of daily life punctuated by descriptions of the crises, and how, supported by his uncomplicated faith, boundless optimism, and no nonsense pragmatism, he coped.
Of great interest to a family historian in the early 21^st C is a reminder of how much England has changed since WWII, and Andrew's regular updates on the state of his family.

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 31 Mar 1901, Croxton Kerrial Leicestershire. Andrew is recorded as a son aged 5 born Shelton NTT

2. Marriage Andrew and Elizabeth Walls, 1920, Welton-le-Marsh Lincolnshire.
Image courtesy Nugee Family Tree J Walker Ancestry.

Andrew married Frances Elizabeth WALLS [9705] [MRIN: 2948], daughter of Richard Arthur WALLS [9706] and Mary Dorothea [9707], on 14 Jan 1920 in Welton-le-Marsh Lincolnshire. (Frances Elizabeth WALLS [9705] was born in Aug 1897 in Letchworth HRT and died on 17 Apr 1963 in Oxford.)

Andrew next married Zeala Maisey INDER [21900] [MRIN: 7874], daughter of Clarence John INDER [22242] and Marion (May) Cunningham MURDOCK [22243], on 16 Sep 1963 in Kencot Whitney OXF. (Zeala Maisey INDER [21900] was born on 4 Jul 1906 in Norwood SRY and died on 16 Oct 1999 in Stroud GLS.)