Cecil Andrew Plaxton was an Anglican priest: the Archdeacon of Wiltshire from 1951 [1] to 1974.
Born in 1902, he was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. After a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon he was ordained in 1927. [2] Following a curacy at St Martin, Salisbury he held incumbencies at Devizes, Weymouth and Pewsey. [3]
He died on 2 February 1993.
Sir John Betjeman was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture, helping to save St Pancras railway station from demolition. He began his career as a journalist and ended it as one of the most popular British Poets Laureate and a much-loved figure on British television.
Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny is a British philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of Wittgenstein of whose literary estate he is an executor. With Peter Geach, he has made a significant contribution to analytical Thomism, a movement whose aim is to present the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas in the style of analytic philosophy. He is a former president of the British Academy and the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
Sir Howard Montagu Colvin was a British architectural historian who produced two of the most outstanding works of scholarship in his field: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 and The History of the King's Works.
John Norman Davidson Kelly was a British theologian and academic at the University of Oxford and Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, between 1951 and 1979, during which the hall transformed into an independent constituent college of the university and later a co-educational establishment.
Sir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr was an English historian specialising in the history of Spain, Latin America, and Sweden. From 1968 to 1987, he was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford.
Kenneth John Woollcombe was an Anglican academic who was Bishop of Oxford in the middle part of his career, from 1971 to 1978.
Julian Medforth Budden was a British opera scholar, radio producer and broadcaster. He is particularly known for his three volumes on the operas of Giuseppe Verdi, a single-volume biography in 1982 and a single-volume work on Giacomo Puccini and his operas in 2002. He is also the author of numerous entries in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
Roderic Norman Coote OBE was an Anglican bishop who held three different posts in an ecclesiastical career spanning half a century.
Thomas Eric Evans KCVO was Dean of St Paul's from 1988 until his death eight years later.
Robert Selby Taylor was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.
George Eric Gordon was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.
Christopher Evelyn Storrs was an Anglican bishop in the mid 20th century.
Godfrey Philip Gower was the fifth Bishop of New Westminster and Metropolitan of British Columbia.
He was born on 5 December 1899, educated at Imperial College, London and St. John's College, University of Manitoba and ordained in 1931. He then held incumbencies in Camrose, Edmonton and Vancouver. He was elected Bishop of New Westminster in 1951 and Metropolitan of British Columbia in 1968, retiring from both posts in 1971. He died on 23 August 1992.
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Lawrence Jackson was an eminent Anglican priest in the 20th century.
Michael Minden Hodgins was the inaugural Archdeacon of Hackney: a post he held from 1951 to 1971. Born into a military family and educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, he was ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1939. After a curacy at St Barnabas, Northolt Park he was Secretary of the London Diocesan Fund from 1946 to 1974.
Havilland Hubert Allport Sands was the Archdeacon of Southwark from 1955 to 1966.
