Ronald Elgin Lark was born in 1921, the son of Edward and Elsie Lark. In 1939 the family were living in Great Yarmouth where Ronald attended Greenacre school before becoming  an apprentice marine engineer.

Serving in the RAF during the WWII  he won the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1944. He was a Flight Lieutenant serving as a navigator on Bombers, surviving over 30 missions.

After the war he trained at Bishops College Cheshunt, marrying Jeanette May Nicholls  in 1948. He was ordained at Bury St. Edmunds in June 1954. His first post seems to have been Assistant Curate at St. Augustine’s Church Ipswich,  from there moving to Over Kellet in Lancashire as vicar from 1954 until in March 1959 and then was instituted to the united benefice of Stowupland and Old Newton.

After leaving our parish he lived in Beccles for a while before becoming vicar of 2 more benefices in the county – Worlingham then Cotton and Wickham Skeith. He was also chaplain to the Suffolk wing of the Air Training Corps and the Royal Air Force Association.

Ronald Lark died in 1974.