Frank Selwyn Macaulay Bennett was a reforming Dean [1] of Chester [2] in the first half of the 20th century [3] and an Anglican scholar. [4]
He was born on 28 October 1866 and educated at Sherborne and Keble College, Oxford. [5] He was Private Chaplain to Bishop Jayne of Chester and then held incumbencies at Portwood and Hawarden [6] before his elevation to the Deanery. [7] A man who made Chester Cathedral "the home of the Diocese, [8] he died on 14 November 1947.
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