The Ven. Percy John Dale, OBE, MA was an Anglican priest: the Archdeacon of Sarum from 1936 until 1950.Born on 23 May 1876, he was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and ordained in 1900. He served curacies at Harrow-on-the-Hill (now in Greater London) and Fittleton (Wiltshire), before becoming Rector of Holy Trinity East Grimstead, Wiltshire, a post he held until his archdeacon’s appointment.He died on 22 April 1957.