Canon Gilbert Doble Priest, historian, hagiographer 1880 - 1945 Canon Doble was born in Penzance, studied history at Exeter College, Oxford then divinity at Ely Theological College. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1907, appointed curate in Redruth in 1919, made the vicar of Wendron near Helston in 1925, where he stayed for 20 years, and also became a canon of Truro Cathedral in 1935.…