English priest (1946–2020)
James Edgar Atwell (3 June 1946 – 12 December 2020) was an English priest who was Dean of Winchester.[1]
Biography
James Edgar Atwell was born on 2 June 1946.[2] He was educated at Dauntsey's and Exeter College, Oxford.[2] He went to theological college at Cuddesdon and was ordained in 1971. He began his ordained ministry with a curacy at St John the Evangelist, East Dulwich[3] after which he was curate at Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge and Chaplain at Jesus College, Cambridge. He has a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) and a Bachelor of Divinity (BD).
From Cambridge he became Vicar of St Lawrence, Towcester[4][5] and then Provost of St Edmundsbury Cathedral[6] before becoming (automatically, due to the Cathedrals Measure) Dean of St Edmundsbury on 19 November 2000.[7] Having received Letters Patent from Elizabeth II,[8] he was installed in Winchester Cathedral at a service on Lady day, 25 March 2006.[9]
On 12 February 2016, it was announced that Atwell was to retire as Dean of Winchester[10] effective 14 July.[11]
Atwell died on 12 December 2020, at the age of 74.[12]
