Alan Warren (priest)

The Very Reverend Alan Warren MA

Provost of Leicester Cathedral
In office 1978–1992

Alan Christopher Warren was an Anglican priest and author,^[1] in the second half of the 20th century.

He was born on 27 June 1932, educated at Dulwich College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and ordained in 1957.^[2] During his time at Cambridge he was a choral scholar and was a violinist and violist in the Footlights and then in the Plymouth and Leicester Symphony orchestras. He later conducted several choirs and composed choral and chamber music. He was an M.C.C. cricketer and in 1968 he had brief appearances for the Leicestershire 2nd XI cricket club in the Second XI Championship.^[3] and played for Hunstanton and Leicestershire Golf Clubs. He began his career with curacies at St Paul’s, Margate and St Andrew, Plymouth. After this he was Chaplain of Kelly College, Tavistock then Vicar of Holy Apostles, Leicester.^[4] From 1972 to 1978 he was a Canon of Coventry Cathedral and Coventry Diocesan Missioner when he became Provost of Leicester Cathedral,^[5] a post he held for 14 years,^[6] serving also on the General Synod of the Church of England and on the Cathedral Statutes Commission. In 1991 he succeeded the former England cricketer Trevor Bailey as President of the Alleyn Club. Since his retirement to West Norfolk in 1992 he has preached widely and founded the Brancaster Music Festival in 2000.

Notes

↑ Amongst others he wrote "Incarnatus for Organ", 1960; "Putting it Across", 1975; and "The Miserable Warren", 1991 > British Library website accessed 15:38 GMT Saturday 23 April 2010
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". Cricketarchive.com. 1932-06-27. Retrieved 2013-08-31.
↑ Debrett's People of Today: Ed Ellis,P (1992, London, Debrett's) p 2101 ISBN 1-870520-09-2)
↑ The Times, Thursday, 9 February 1978; pg. 18; Issue 60232; col C Church news
↑ Who's Who 1996 p2012 London, A & C Black, 1997 ISBN 0-7136-4255-6

Church of England titles
Preceded by John Chester Hughes	Provost of Leicester Cathedral 1978– 1992	Succeeded by Derek Norman Hole

Provosts and Deans of Leicester

Provosts	Frederick MacNutt Herbert Jones Mervyn Armstrong Richard Mayston John Hughes Alan Warren Derek Hole Vivienne Faull (became Dean)

Deans	Vivienne Faull (previously Provost) David Monteith

Diocese of Leicester

Leicester Cathedral Bishop's Lodge, Leicester St Martin's House, Leicester Launde Abbey

Office holders	John Holbrook, Acting Bishop of Leicester Martyn Snow, Bishop of Leicester Christopher Boyle, Assistant Bishop of Leicester AEO: Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough David Monteith, Dean of Leicester David Newman, Archdeacon of Loughborough Tim Stratford, Archdeacon of Leicester

Historic offices	Provost of Leicester (1927–2000; see Dean of Leicester)

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