Richard Montague Stephens Eyre (16 May 1929 – 12 December 2012) was an Anglican priest. He was the Dean of Exeter from 1981 to 1995. Eyre was educated at

Charterhouse School (God having given, I gave) , established = , closed = , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , president ...

and

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. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1957 Crockford’s 1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 and began his ministry as a

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at St Mark's Portsea, Portsmouth. After this, he was a tutor at Chichester Theological College then a

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. From 1965 to 1973, he was the Vicar of

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and from 1975 to 1981, the Archdeacon of Chichester, before his appointment as the Dean of Exeter.

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1929 births 2012 deaths Archdeacons of Chichester Deans of Exeter British Anglo-Catholics Anglo-Catholic clergy People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub