Dean of Carlisle
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The Dean of Carlisle is based in Carlisle
, UK and is the head of the Chapter of Carlisle Cathedral
. There have been 39 previous incumbents and the current holder of the post
is The Very Reverend Mark Boyling.
City of Carlisle
The City of Carlisle is a local government district of Cumbria, England, with the status of a city and non-metropolitan district. It is named after its largest settlement, Carlisle, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of Brampton and Longtown, as well as outlying villages...
, UK and is the head of the Chapter of Carlisle Cathedral
Carlisle Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, otherwise called Carlisle Cathedral, is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Carlisle. It is located in Carlisle, in Cumbria, North West England...
. There have been 39 previous incumbents and the current holder of the post
Dean (religion)
A dean, in a church context, is a cleric holding certain positions of authority within a religious hierarchy. The title is used mainly in the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church.-Anglican Communion:...
is The Very Reverend Mark Boyling.
Deans
- 1542 Lancelot Salkeld, last prior and first dean
- 1560 Sir Thomas Smith
- 1577 Sir John Wooley
- 1596 Christopher PerkinsChristopher Perkins (dean)Sir Christopher Perkins was an English Jesuit turned diplomat.-Life:He was educated at Oxford, and graduated B.A. on 7 April 1565; but on 21 October next year he entered the Society of Jesus at Rome, aged 19...
- 1602 Francis White
- 1626 William Paterson
- 1630 Thomas Comber
- 1660 Guy CarletonGuy Carleton (bishop)Guy Carleton was an Anglican clergyman. He was Dean of Carlisle from 1660 to 1661, Bishop of Bristol from 1672 to 1679 and Bishop of Chichester from 1678 to 1685.-Life:...
- 1671 Thomas SmithThomas Smith (bishop)Thomas Smith was an English clergyman, who served as Dean of Carlisle, 1672–1684, and Bishop of Carlisle, 1684–1702...
- 1684 Thomas Musgrave
- 1686 William Graham
- 1704 Francis AtterburyFrancis AtterburyFrancis Atterbury was an English man of letters, politician and bishop.-Early life:He was born at Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, where his father was rector. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he became a tutor...
- 1711 George SmalridgeGeorge Smalridge-Life:George Smalridge was born at Lichfield, son of the Sheriff of Lichfield Thomas Smalridge, George received his early education, this being completed at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford....
- 1713 Thomas Gibson
- 1716 Thomas Tullie
- 1727 Sir George Fleming
- 1734 Robert Bolton
- 1764 Charles Tarrent
- 1764 Thomas Wilson
- 1778 Thomas Percy
- 1782 Jeffrey Ekins
- 1792 Isaac MilnerIsaac MilnerIsaac Milner FRS was a mathematician, an inventor, the President of Queens' College, Cambridge and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics....
- 1820 Robert Hodgson
- 1838 Samuel HindsSamuel Hinds (bishop)Samuel Hinds, DD , was a British clergyman. He was appointed Bishop of Norwich in 1849 and resigned in 1857. Hinds was of the Anglo-Catholic persuasion. He had strong links with the colonisation of New Zealand and the town of Hinds, New Zealand is named after him.-Life:Hinds was born in Barbados...
- 1844–1848 John Antony CramerJohn Antony CramerJohn Antony Cramer , English classical scholar and geographer, was born at Mitlödi in Switzerland.He was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford...
- 1849–1856 Archibald Campbell TaitArchibald Campbell TaitArchibald Campbell Tait was a priest in the Church of England and an Archbishop of Canterbury.-Life:Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Tait was educated at the Royal High School and at the Edinburgh Academy, where he was twice elected dux. His parents were Presbyterian but he early turned towards the...
- 1856 Francis CloseFrancis CloseFrancis Close was the Anglican Rector of Cheltenham , and Dean of Carlisle from 1856–1881.-Biography:...
- 1882–1884 John OakleyJohn Oakley (cleric)The Very Rev John OakleyDD was Dean of Carlisle and then Manchester in the last quarter of the 19th Century. Born in 1834, he was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and ordained in 1858...
- 1884–1905 William George HendersonWilliam George HendersonThe Very Rev William George HendersonDD was Dean of Carlisle from 1884 to his death in 1905. Born in 1819, he was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and ordained in 1859 after spells as a Fellow of his old college and a Tutor at Durham University and later principal of Hatfield College, Durham...
- Charles Ridgeway
- William Barker
- 1917–1924 Hastings RashdallHastings RashdallHastings Rashdall was an English philosopher who expounded a theory known as ideal utilitarianism.Son of an Anglican priest, he was educated at Harrow and received a scholarship for New College, Oxford...
- 1988-1998 Henry Edward Champneys StapletonHenry Edward Champneys StapletonHenry Edward Champneys Stapleton MBE was Dean of Carlisle from 1988 to 1998.Stapleton was educated at Lancing College and Pembroke College, Cambridge and ordained in 1956. He held curacies at St Olave with St Giles, York and All Saints' Pocklington. He was Vicar of Seaton Ross then Rector of Skelton...
- 1999–2003 Graeme Knowles
- 2004–present Mark Boyling