Ian Deighton Corbett was Dean of Tuam from 1997 to 1999. Corbett was born in 1942, educated at

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and

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and ordained in 1969. Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) After a curacy in

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he was

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at Bolton Polytechnic. He was the Diocese of Manchester's further education officer from 1974 to 1983 and

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of St John Chrysostom,

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, from 1975 to 1980. He was the

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of Salford Polytechnic from 1980 to 1983; and rector of Sacred Trinity, Salford from 1983 to 1987. He was

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of Lelapa la Jesu Sem

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from 1988 to 1991; a missionary in Zimbabwe then Botswana from 1991 until 1995 and rector of St Mary, Kuruman, from 1995 to 1997. After his time as dean, he was rector of

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from 1999 until 2001, when he moved to work in Utah. He retired in 2008. He is now an honorary curate in Clevedon.

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1942 births Living people Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Alumni of Westcott House, Cambridge Deans of Tuam {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub