Geoffrey Charles Cates (13 June 1918 – 2003) was the Dean of St George's Cathedral,

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from 1961 to 1971. Born in Surrey and educated at the

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, he was

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in 1944 and began his career with

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at Spennymoor and Ushaw Moor. In 1949 he was appointed

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of the Butlin's Holiday Camp in Clacton-on-Sea, a post he held until his appointment as

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. In 1961 he entered the

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of the

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, where he remained for a decade. Returning to England he was

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of ''Sacred Trinity, Salford '' and

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of The area.National Archives
/ref> His final post until his retirement in 1988 was in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and he remained in Ipswich until his death in 2003. He was an honorary Canon of his final diocese, having previously held a similar post in Manchester.

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1918 births Alumni of the University of Leeds Deans of St George's Cathedral, Georgetown 20th-century Guyanese Anglican priests 2003 deaths 20th-century English Anglican priests {{Guyana-bio-stub