The Dean of Portsmouth is the head (''primus inter pares'' – first among equals) and chair of the chapter of canons, the ruling body of Portsmouth Cathedral. The dean and chapter are based at the ''Cathedral Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury'' in

Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council. Portsmouth is the most dens ...

. Before 2000 the post was designated as a provost, which was then the equivalent of a

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at most English cathedrals. The cathedral is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Portsmouth and seat of the Bishop of Portsmouth. The current Dean is the Very Revd Dr

Anthony Cane Anthony William Nicholas Strephon Cane is the current dean of Portsmouth: he was installed on Saturday 16 March 2019. Cane was born on 25 August 1961 in Cape Town, South Africa: his English parents had emigrated the previous year. He is married, a ...

List of deans

Provosts

*1927–1930

Bernard Williams Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, FBA (21 September 1929 – 10 June 2003) was an English moral philosopher. His publications include ''Problems of the Self'' (1973), ''Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy'' (1985), ''Shame and Necessity'' ...

*1930–1938

Thomas Masters Reverend Thomas Heywood Masters, CBE (9 April 1865 – 1 September 1939) was an Anglican priest. "Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007, Masters was born in 1865, and educated at Withington High School, at Inverness College, in Han ...

*1939–1972

Eric Porter Goff Eric Noel Porter Goff was an Anglican priest. He was born on Christmas Eve 1902, educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1927. His first posts were at Christ Church, Westminster, St. Michael's Church, Chester Square and Immanuel, S ...

*1972–1982

Michael Nott Michael John Nott (9 November 1916 – 3 February 1988) was an Anglican priest. Nott was born in 1916, educated at St Paul's and King's College London and ordained in 1939. His first posts were at Abington, Reading and Kettering. Following thi ...

*1982–1993 David Stancliffe *1994–1999 Michael Yorke *2000–''2000'' William Taylor ''(became Dean)''

Deans

*''2000''–2002 William Taylor *200210 June 2018 (ret.)

David Brindley David Charles Brindley AKC (born 11 June 1953, Wednesbury, West Midlands)Anthony Cane Anthony William Nicholas Strephon Cane is the current dean of Portsmouth: he was installed on Saturday 16 March 2019. Cane was born on 25 August 1961 in Cape Town, South Africa: his English parents had emigrated the previous year. He is married, a ...

References

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