Ian Tarrant (born
Essex 1957) is an
Anglican
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priest, the
Dean of Gibraltar
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since 2020.
Tarrant was educated at
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and at
St John's College, Nottingham. He was
ordained deacon in 1984 and
priest in 1985.
After a
curacy in
Ealing
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Ealing was histor ...
he worked in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1988 to 1998. He was
Senior Anglican Chaplain at the
University of Nottingham from 1998 to 2009 and
Rector
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*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of
Woodford Woodford may refer to:
Places
Australia
*Woodford, New South Wales
*Woodford, Queensland, a town in the Moreton Bay Region
*Woodford, Victoria
Canada
* Woodford, Ontario
England
*Woodford, Cornwall
* Woodford, Gloucestershire
*Woodford, Greate ...
from then until his appointment as
Dean. His wife,
Sally Barton, holds the world record for being the oldest person to play international cricket.
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References
1957 births
People from Essex
20th-century Anglican priests
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Deans of Gibraltar
Living people
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