Charles John Eyre Peshall, CBE, DSO, KHC (1881–1957) was a Church of England priest and former Royal Navy chaplain."Kingsnorth Airship Station: In Defence of the Nation" Bilbé, T p79: Stroud, The History Press 2013 He was Chaplain of the Fleet, director general of the Naval Chaplaincy Service and archdeacon for the Royal Navy from 1933 to 1935.'PESHALL, Rev. Charles John Eyre', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 30 May 2017
Peshall was born in Oldberrow,Warwickshire Ancestors Project Warwickshire,Eyre History educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1904,Cambridge Independent Press Cambridgeshire, England 24 Jun 1904 and priest in 1906.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p1010 Oxford, OUP, 1929 After curacies at Atherstone and Tor Mohun he served as a naval chaplainNLS from 1908London Gazette 5 May 1908 to'The Immortal Gamble and the part played in it by H.M.S. Cornwallis' Stewart, A.T p35 London, A & C Black, 1917 1935. He was also an Honorary Chaplain to the King from 1934News in Brief. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 18 April 1934; pg. 16; Issue 46731 to 1935. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1935 New Year Honours.
He died on 18 October 1957.Rev. C. J. E. Peshall. The Times (London, England), Saturday, 19 October 1957; pg. 11; Issue 53976
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