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Dean 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, which was then the equivalent of a dean at most English cathedrals. The cathedral is one of three co-equal mother churches of the Diocese of Leeds and a seat of the 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 Provosts *1931–1932 |
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] |
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] |
Lists Of Anglicans
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'', which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1966. In general, the political position of ''The Times'' is considered to be centre-right. ''The Times'' is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as ''The Times of India'', ''The New York Times'', and more recently, digital-first publications such as TheTimesBlog.com (Since 2017). In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as , or as , although the newspaper is of nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A & C Black
A & C Black is a British book publishing company, owned since 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing. The company is noted for publishing '' Who's Who'' since 1849. It also published popular travel guides and novels. History The firm was founded in 1807 by Charles and Adam Black in Edinburgh. In 1851, the company purchased the copyrights to Sir Walter Scott's ''Waverly'' novels for £27,000. The company moved to the Soho district of London in 1889. During the years 1827–1903 the firm published the seventh, eighth and ninth editions of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. This was purchased from Archibald Constable after his company's failure to publish the seventh edition of the encyclopedia. Adam Black retired in 1870 due to his disapproval of his sons' extravagant plans for its ninth edition. This edition, however, would sell half a million sets and was released in 24 volumes from 1875 to 1889. Beginning in 1839, the firm published a series of travel guides known as ''Black's Guide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who's Who
''Who's Who'' (or ''Who is Who'') is the title of a number of reference publications, generally containing concise biography, biographical information on the prominent people of a country. The title has been adopted as an expression meaning a group of notable persons. The oldest and best-known is the annual publication ''Who's Who (UK), Who's Who'', a reference work on contemporary prominent people in Britain published annually since 1849. In addition to legitimate reference works, some ''Who's Who'' lists involve the selling of "memberships" in fraudulent directories that are created online or through instant publishing services. AARP, the University at Buffalo and the Government of South Australia have published warnings of these ''Who's Who'' scams. Notable examples by country * ''Who's Who (UK), Who's Who'', the oldest listing of prominent British people since 1849; people who have died since 1897 are listed in ''Who Was Who.'' * ''Cambridge Who's Who'' (also known as ''Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Of Exeter
The Dean of Exeter is the head of the Chapter of Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, England. The chapter was established by William Briwere, Bishop of Exeter (1224–44) who set up the offices of dean and chancellor of Exeter Cathedral, allowing the chapter to elect those officers. The deanery is at 10 The Close, Exeter. The current dean is Jonathan Greener. List of deans High Medieval *1225–1231 Serlo *1231–1252 Roger de Wynkleigh *1252–1268 William de Stanwey *1268–1274 Roger de Toriz *1274–1280 John Noble *1280–1283 John Pycot *1283–1302 Andrew de Kilkenny Late Medieval *1302–1307 Henry de Somerset *1307–1309 Thomas de Lechlade *1311–1326 Bartholomew de Sancto Laurentio *1328–1335 Richard de Coleton *1335–1353 Richard de Braylegh *1353–1363 Reginald de Bugwell *1363–1378 Robert Sumpter *1378–1385 Thomas Walkyngton *1385–1415 Ralph Tregrision *1415–1419 Stephen Payn *1419–1457 John Cobethorn *1457–1459 John Hals *1459 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Greener
Jonathan Desmond Francis Greener (born 9 March 1961) is a British Anglican priest. He was Dean of Wakefield and presiding dean of the Diocese of Leeds. He became Dean of Exeter on 26 November 2017. Early life and education Greener was educated at Reigate Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge (whence he gained his Cambridge Master of Arts ). After 5 years as Sales and Export Manager with A & M Hearing (a company run by his father) he studied for the priesthood at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield. Ordained ministry Greener was ordained in 1992. He was Assistant Curate at Holy Trinity with St Matthew, Southwark, while Angus Galbraith was incumbent from 1991 to 1994. During this time he organized the opening of the new Church building and community centre "St Matthew at the Elephant" by Diana, Princess of Wales, one of her final public engagements. He then became the Bishop of Truro's Domestic Chaplain. He was Vicar of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Brighton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Nairn-Briggs
George Peter Nairn-Briggs was a Provost then the Dean of Wakefield. He is also the author of several books.He was born on 5 July 1945 and educated at Slough Technical High School and began his working life in local authority housing after which he was a press officer for MAFF. From 1966 he began to study for the priesthood, firstly at King's College London and then at St Augustine's College, Canterbury. He held curacies at St Laurence, Catford and then St Saviour, Raynes Park. After this he was Vicar of Christ the King, Salfords and then St Peter, St Helier (Bishop Andrewes) in Morden. He was the Bishop of Wakefield’s Advisor for Social Responsibility between 1987 and 1997, and a Canon Residentiary at Wakefield cathedral from 1992.''Who's Who'' 2008: London, A & C Black A & C Black is a British book publishing company, owned since 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing. The company is noted for publishing '' Who's Who'' since 1849. It also published popular travel guides an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lister (priest)
John Field Lister (19 January 1916 – 23 August 2006) was an Anglican priest. Early life and education Lister was born on 19 January 1916. He was educated at King's School, Worcester, a private school in Worcester, Worcestershire. He studied theology at Keble College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1938; and proceeded MA in 1942. In 1938, he entered Cuddesdon College, an Anglican theological college, to under a years training for ordained ministry. Ordained ministry Lister was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1939 and as a priest in 1941. He was initially a Curate at St Nicholas Radford. After this he was Curate at St John the Baptist, Coventry and then Vicar of Brighouse. He was Archdeacon of Halifax from 1961 to 1972, when he became Provost of Wakefield – a post he held for a decade. He retired from full-time ministry in 1982. Later life In retirement, from 1982 to 2003, Lister held Permission to Officiate in the Diocese o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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