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The Dean of Carlisle is based in
Carlisle,
UK and is the head of the Chapter of
Carlisle Cathedral
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. There have been 39 previous incumbents and the post is currently vacant.
List of deans
Early modern
*1542–1547
Lancelot Salkeld (last prior)
*1548–1554
Thomas Smith
*1554–1560 Lancelot Salkeld ''(again)''
*1560–1577 Thomas Smith ''(again)''
*1577–1596
John Wolley
*1596–1622
Christopher Perkins
*1622–1626
Francis White
*1626–1629
William Peterson (afterwards
Dean of Exeter
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)
*1629–1654
Thomas Comber
*1660–1672
Guy Carleton
*1672–1684
Thomas Smith
*1684–1686
Thomas Musgrave
*1686–1704
William Grahme (afterwards
Dean of Wells
The Dean of Wells is the head of the Chapter of Wells Cathedral in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. The dean's residence is The Dean's Lodging, 25 The Liberty, Wells.
List of deans
High Medieval
*1140–1164: Ivo
*1164–1189: Ric ...
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*1704–1711
Francis Atterbury
*1711–1713
George Smalridge
*1713–1716
Thomas Gibson
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*1716–1727
Thomas Tullie
*1727–1735
George Fleming
*1734–1763
Robert Bolton
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Life
He was born on Whit Sunday in Blackburn, Lancashire, the sixth son of Adam Bolton of Backhouse. He attended what is now Queen Elizabeth' ...
*1764
Charles Tarrant
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Tarrant was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He held incumbencies at North Tidworth, the City of Westminster, Staines, Bloomsbury, Lamberhurst and Wrotham. He was Dean of Carlisl ...
(afterwards
Dean of Peterborough
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, 1764–1791)
*1764–1778
Thomas Wilson
*1778–1782
Thomas Percy
*1782–1791
Jeffery Ekins
Late modern
*1792–1820
Isaac Milner
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He was instrumental in the 1785 religious conversion of William Wilberforce a ...
*1820–1844
Robert Hodgson
*1844–1848
John Cramer
*1848
Samuel Hinds
*1849–1856
Archibald Campbell Tait
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Life
Tait was bo ...
*1856–1881
Francis Close
Francis Close (11 July 1797 – 18 December 1882) was the Anglican rector of Cheltenham (1826–1856) and Dean of Carlisle (1856–1881).
Biography
Close was born on 11 July 1797 in Frome, Somerset, the youngest son of the Rev. Henry Jackson Cl ...
*1882–1884
John Oakley
*1884–1905
William Henderson
*1906–1908
Charles Ridgeway
*1908–1917
William Barker
*1917–1924
Hastings Rashdall
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*1924–1933
Henry Stuart
*1933–1938
Cecil Cooper
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*1938–1942
Frederick Matheson
*1943–1959
Cyril Mayne
*1960–1973
Lionel du Toit
*1973–1987
John Churchill
*1988–1998
Henry Stapleton
*1999–2003
Graeme Knowles
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Biography
Knowles was educated ...
*2004–2022
Mark Boyling (retired 30 September 2022)
References
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: volume 11: Carlisle, Chester, Durham, Manchester, Ripon, and Sodor and Man dioceses
Church of England deans
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Diocese of Carlisle
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