Exeter Cathedral, properly known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, is an Anglican cathedral, and the seat of the Bishop of Exeter, in the city of Exeter, Devon, in South West England. The present building was complete by about 1400, and has several notable features, including an early set of misericords, an astronomical clock and the longest uninterrupted vaulted ceiling in England.
The Bishop of Exeter is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury. The current incumbent, since 30 April 2014, is Robert Atwell. The incumbent signs his name as his Christian name or forename followed by Exon., abbreviated from the Latin Episcopus Exoniensis.
Simon of Apulia was an Italian-born canon lawyer who served as Bishop of Exeter in Devon, England, from 1214 until his death in 1223.
John Hales was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1459-1490). He was one of the Worthies of Devon of the biographer John Prince (d.1723).
Henry Marshal was a medieval Bishop of Exeter.
Edmund Lacey was a medieval Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of Exeter in England.
John Arundel was a medieval Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and Bishop of Exeter.
Benjamin Morgan Cowie was Dean of Manchester and then Exeter in the last quarter of the 19th century.
Valentine Cary, was an English clergyman, who became Bishop of Exeter.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905) was a distinguished English Christian theologian, academic and churchman. He briefly served as Dean of Exeter, then Bishop of the united see of Gloucester and Bristol.
The 1981–82 season was Cardiff City F.C.'s 55th season in the Football League. They competed in the 22-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing twentieth.
Stamford School is an English independent school for boys in the market town of Stamford, Lincolnshire. Founded in 1532, it has been a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference since 1920. With the girls-only Stamford High School and the coeducational Stamford Junior School, it is part of the Stamford Endowed Schools (SES).
Cambridge Blackfriars is a priory in Cambridgeshire, England. It was established in 1238, dissolved in 1538 and re-established in 1938. It continues to operate as a Dominican priory and, in 2000, became the novitiate house of the English Province of the Order of Preachers.
Spencer Cecil Carpenter, was an Anglican priest and author. He was the Dean of Exeter in the Church of England from 1935 to 1950.
The Very Rev. Charles Harward son of John Harward and Lucy Harward was born on 1 August and baptised 28 August 1723 and died 15 July 1802, he was an Anglican priest, born in Hayne House Plymtree, Devon.
Alured Clarke (1696–1742) was Dean of Exeter between 1741 and 1742.
Richard Annesley, 3rd Baron Altham, styled The Honourable Richard Annesley between 1681 and 1700, was Dean of Exeter between 1681 and 1701.
Simon Haynes or Heynes was Dean of Exeter between 1537 and 1552.
George William Lukin was the Dean of Wells between 1799 and his death on 27 November 1812.
Mark Overton, FAcSS, is a British agricultural historian and formerly Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter, where he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 2006 to 2013.
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