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    The Dean of Westminster is the head of the chapter at Westminster Abbey. Due to the abbey's status as a royal peculiar, the dean answers directly to the...
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    portal The Dean and Chapter of Westminster are the ecclesiastical governing body of Westminster Abbey, a collegiate church of the Church of England and...
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    Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England...
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  • Westminster School is a public school in Westminster, London, England, in the precincts of Westminster Abbey. It descends from a charity school founded...
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    56 Dean Street, based in Dean Street in London's Soho district, is a sexual health clinic. Part of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation...
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    as Dean Stanley, was an English Anglican priest and ecclesiastical historian. He was Dean of Westminster from 1864 to 1881. His position was that of a...
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  • David Hoyle (priest) (category Deans of Westminster)
    priest and academic who was appointed the 39th Dean of Westminster in 2019, having previously served as Dean of Bristol from 2010 to 2019. Hoyle was born in...
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    the Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret Westminster Act 1972, and the church was brought under the authority of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey...
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  • Look up Westminster in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Westminster is an area within the City of Westminster, London, UK. Westminster may also refer to:...
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    John Hall (priest) (category Deans of Westminster)
    (born 13 March 1949) is an English retired priest of the Church of England. He was the Dean of Westminster and a chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II. His parents...
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    had suggested Shakespeare should be buried there). Samuel Horsley, Dean of Westminster in 1796, was said to have tartly refused the request for actress...
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  • Alan Don (category Deans of Westminster)
    Archbishop of Canterbury, from 1931 to 1941, Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons from 1936 to 1946 and Dean of Westminster from 1946 to...
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  • Paul de Labilliere (category Deans of Westminster)
    28 April 1946) was the second Bishop of Knaresborough from 1934 to 1937; and, subsequently, Dean of Westminster. Born on 22 January 1879 into a legal...
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    Herbert Edward Ryle (category Deans of Westminster)
    bishop, successively serving as the Bishop of Exeter, the Bishop of Winchester and the Dean of Westminster. Ryle was born in Onslow Square, South Kensington...
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    presided over by Edward Carpenter, Dean of Westminster, with the commendation given by Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, and clergy from several...
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  • Richard Chenevix Trench, Dean of Westminster 1856-64 Dean's Yard and Little Dean's Yard – location of the Dean of Westminster's house Derby Gate – after...
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    Guy Henry (actor) (category Alumni of RADA)
    the Dean of Westminster in the second season of the Rainmark Films series The Frankenstein Chronicles. In 2023, he appeared in four episodes of Queen...
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  • marked a milestone as after the death of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker in December 1911, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey chose to offer Hooker a grave...
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    a catafalque in Westminster Hall. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Dean of Westminster then conducted a service in the presence of the royal family...
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    Samuel Wilberforce (category Deans of Westminster)
    Wilberforce accepted the position of Dean of Westminster and, in October the same year, was appointed as the Bishop of Oxford by Sir Robert Peel. This year...
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  • school). It is located in Dean's Yard, by Westminster Abbey. It educates about 30 boys, aged 8–13 who sing in the Choir of Westminster Abbey, which takes part...
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    George Granville Bradley (category Deans of Westminster)
    schoolteacher, who was Dean of Westminster (1881–1902). Bradley was a son of the preacher Charles Bradley (1789–1871), vicar of Glasbury, a noted evangelical...
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    Richard Neile (category Deans of Westminster)
    Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. Westminster Archives, Commissary Court of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster wills...
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    Richard Chenevix Trench (category Deans of Westminster)
    popular works which are treasuries of erudite and acute illustration. In 1856 Trench became Dean of Westminster Abbey, a position which suited him. Here...
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    Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod: Major General James Gordon CB CBE The office of Dean is held by the Dean of Westminster. The King of Arms, responsible...
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  • Wesley Carr (category Deans of Westminster)
    (26 July 1941 – 15 July 2017) was an Anglican priest who was the Dean of Westminster from 1997 to 2006. Carr was born on 26 July 1941, and was educated...
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    Richard Cox (bishop) (category Deans of Westminster)
    22 July 1581) was an English clergyman, who was Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Ely. Cox was born of obscure parentage at Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, in...
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    He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he became a tutor. In 1682, he published a translation of Absalom and Achitophel...
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    12917 Dean's Yard, Westminster, comprises most of the remaining precincts of the historically greater scope of the monastery or abbey of Westminster, not...
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    Armitage Robinson (category Deans of Westminster)
    the Church of England and scholar. He was successively Dean of Westminster (1902–1911) and of Wells (1911–1933). Robinson was born the son of a poor vicar...
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