The Very Rev Robert Andrew Mitchell was Dean of Lincoln from 1930 to 1949. [1] Born in 1870, [2] he was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and ordained in 1893. His first post was as a curate at St Mary-at-the-Walls, Colchester, [3] after which he was Vicar of Highfield, Hampshire then of St. Michael's Church, Chester Square, [4] before his appointment to the Deanery.
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| Preceded by Thomas Charles Fry | Dean of Lincoln 1930 – 1949 | Succeeded by David Colin Dunlop |
Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln Minster, or the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln and sometimes St Mary's Cathedral, in Lincoln, England, is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Lincoln. Construction commenced in 1072 and continued in several phases throughout the High Middle Ages. Like many of the medieval cathedrals of England it was built in the Early Gothic style.
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