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Provosts And Deans Of Wakefield
The Dean of Wakefield is the head (''primus inter pares'' – first among equals) and chair of the chapter of canons, the ruling body of Wakefield Cathedral. The dean and chapter are based at the ''Cathedral Church of All Saints Wakefield''. Before 2000 the post was designated as a Provost (religion), provost, which was then the equivalent of a Dean (religion), dean at most List of cathedrals in the United Kingdom, English cathedrals. The cathedral is one of three co-equal mother churches of the Anglican Diocese of Leeds, Diocese of Leeds and a seat of the Anglican Bishop of Leeds, Bishop of Leeds. The current dean is Simon Cowling.Wakefield Cathedral — New Dean for Wakefield Cathedral (Accessed 29 May 2018) List of provosts and deans ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wakefield - Cathedral
Wakefield is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder, West Yorkshire, River Calder. The city had a population of 99,251 in the 2011 Census for England and Wales, 2011 census.https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew Census 2011 table KS101EW Usual resident population, West Yorkshire – Wakefield BUASD, code E35000474 The city is the administrative centre of the wider City of Wakefield metropolitan district, which had a population of , the List of English districts by population, most populous district in England. It is part of the West Yorkshire Built-up Area and the Yorkshire and The Humber region. In 1888, it was one of the last group of towns to gain city status due to having a Wakefield Cathedral, cathedral. The city has a Wakefield Town Hall, town hall and Wakefield County Hall, county hall, as the former administrative centre of the city's county borough and metropolitan borough as well as county t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Allen (provost Of Wakefield)
John Edward Allen (9 June 1932 – 9 September 2015) was an Anglican priest in the 20th century. He was Provost of Wakefield from 1982 to 1997. Early life Allen was born on 9 June 1932 in Rusholme, Lancashire (now in Greater Manchester). His father was Ronald Edward Taylor Allen, a canon and sometime Vicar of Edgbaston. He was educated at Rugby School, then an all-boys public school. He studied at University College, Oxford, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1956. Early career Allen was in the Colonial Service in Kenya from 1957 to 1963. After Kenya's independence, he moved to a career in business. He worked in Sales and Marketing with Kimberly-Clark until 1966. Having become unsatisfied with his business career, Allen felt the call to ordination. In 1966, he entered Westcott House, Cambridge, an Anglican theological college. For two years he trained at Westcott and additionally studied theology at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. By 1968, he had complete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of English People
Listed below are English people of note and some notable individuals born in England. Actors and actresses Archaeologists and anthropologists * George Adamson (1906–1989) * Leslie Alcock (1925–2006) * Mick Aston (1946–2013) * Richard Atkinson (1920–1994) * Edward Russell Ayrton (1882–1914) * Churchill Babington (1821–1889) * Philip Arthur Barker (1920–2001) * Thomas Bateman (1821–1861) * James Theodore Bent (1852–1897) * Geoffrey Bibby (1917–2001) * Howard Carter (1874–1939) * Grahame Clark (1907–1995) * David Clarke (1937–1976) * Barry Cunliffe (born 1939) * Glyn Daniel (1914–1986) * John Disney (1779–1857), barrister and archaeologist * E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902–1973), social anthropologist * Cyril Fox (1882–1967) * Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968) * William Greenwell (1820–1918) * Phil Harding (born 1950) * Kathleen Kenyon (1906–1978) * John Leland (1502–1552), antiquary * John Lubbock (1834–1913), banker, politician, natu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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