Obituary write up:
CURATE FOR 22 YEARS At St. Botolph's. The tragedy, which was the cause of the Worthing Rescue Boat being built— the death in a yachting accident off Worthing of Lieut. Commander Stewart Blenkins and Mr Kenneth Howden—is recalled by the death on Sunday of the Rev. Blenkins, father of one of the victims. Mr Blenkins, who lived with an un-married daughter, Miss W. M. L. Blenkins- at Bemersyde, 30, Rugby-road, was 75 years of age and had been in poor health for some 4 years. He was for 22 years a curate at Heene, when Rev. J. P. Fallowes was the rector, had lived in Worthing for about 40 years, most of the time at 16, Heene Terrace, which was also the home of his mother, who was well-known to many of the town. Educated at Oxford he served several curacies in London and elsewhere in England before coming to Sussex as Priest in the Diocese of Chichester in 1895. In 1906, he became curate at Heene, being obliged to resign in 1928 owing to a breakdown. Blenkins was a close friend of Father W. B. Handford, the well-known Anglo-Catholic. He was the son of the late Major G. E. Bienkins, of the Grenadier Guards, who had served in the Crimean Campaign, in which he served as Deputy-Inspector General. Four children survive: Mr George L. R. Blenkins, of Teddington, Mr R. H. W. Blenkins, of Hampstead, Miss W. L. Blenkins and Mrs E Kaney. The funeral was taken by the Rev. W. B. Handford, assistant in charge at St John’s, officiated at the funeral, the first part took place at St. Botolph’s, Heene before the burial at Broadwater Cemetery.