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

  1. ^ "The Very Reverend Alec Knight OBE". www.sja.org.uk. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  2. ^ BBC News
  3. ^ "Resignation details". Archived from the original on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
  4. ^ His father was the Rev Benjamin Edward KnightWho's Who2008: London, A & C Black ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
  5. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 (100th edition), Church House Publishing (ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0)
  6. ^ "FreedomNames - The Full Service Domain People". Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  7. ^ Church News The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 10 August 1982; pg. 10; Issue 61308
  8. ^ ‘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
  9. ^ "Details of honour". Archived from the original on 3 June 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
  10. ^ "The Very Rev Dr Alec Knight OBE KStJ". The Times. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
Church of England titles Preceded byBrandon Donald Jackson Dean of Lincoln 1998–2006 Succeeded byPhilip John Warr Buckler
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