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English Anglican clergyman (1939–2023)
Alexander Francis Knight ,
OBE
[1] (24 July 1939 – 21 November 2023) was an English Anglican clergyman who was the
Dean of Lincoln from 1998 to 2006.
[2]
[3]
Biography
Alexander Francis Knight was born into an ecclesiastical family on 24 July 1939.
[4] He was educated at
Taunton School and
St Catharine's College, Cambridge .
Ordained in 1954, after a spell as a
curate at
Hemel Hempstead
[5] he became
chaplain at
his old school and then director of the
Bloxham Project .
[6] From here he became Director of Studies at the Aston Training Scheme then
priest in charge of
Easton and
Martyr Worthy and finally (before his elevation to the
deanery )
Archdeacon of Basingstoke
[7] and a
canon residentiary at
Winchester Cathedral .
[8]
Knight was appointed
OBE in 2006.
[9] He died on 21 November 2023, at the age of 84.
[10]
Notes
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"The Very Reverend Alec Knight OBE" . www.sja.org.uk . Retrieved 8 January 2015 .
^
BBC News
^
"Resignation details" . Archived from
the original on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2009 .
^ His father was the Rev Benjamin Edward Knight
Who's Who 2008: London,
A & C Black
ISBN
978-0-7136-8555-8
^
Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 (100th edition), Church House Publishing (
ISBN
978-0-7151-1030-0 )
^
"FreedomNames - The Full Service Domain People" . Retrieved 8 January 2015 .
^ Church News
The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 10 August 1982; pg. 10; Issue 61308
^ ‘KNIGHT, Very Rev. Alexander Francis’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, November 2016
accessed 7 October 2017
^
"Details of honour" . Archived from
the original on 3 June 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2009 .
^
"The Very Rev Dr Alec Knight OBE KStJ" . The Times. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023 .
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