Alec Knight

Alexander Francis "Alec" Knight OBE^[1] was Dean of Lincoln in the very last years of the 20th century and the start of the 21st.^[2]

He was born into an ecclesiastical family^[3] on 24 July 1939 and educated at Taunton School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1954, after a spell as a Curate at Hemel Hempstead^[4] he became Chaplain at his old school and then Director of the Bloxham Project.^[5] 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 and a Canon Residentiary at Winchester Cathedral.

He was appointed OBE in 2006.^[6]

Notes

↑ "The Very Reverend Alec Knight OBE". www.sja.org.uk. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
↑ Resignation details
↑ His father was the Rev Benjamin Edward KnightWho's Who2008: 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.
↑ Details of honour

Church of England titles
Preceded by Brandon Donald Jackson	Dean of Lincoln 1998 – 2006	Succeeded by Philip John Warr Buckler

Deans of Lincoln

High Medieval	Ranulph Simon Bloet Philip of Harcourt Adelelm Geoffrey Richard FitzNeal Hamo Roger de Rolleston William de Thornaco Roger Weseham Henry of Lexington Richard of Gravesend Robert de Mariscis William of Lexington Richard de Mepham John de Maidenstan Oliver Sutton Nicholas de Hegham Philip Willoughby

Late Medieval	Joceline Kirmington Raymond de Got Roger Martival Henry Mansfield Antony Bek William Bateman John de Ufford Thomas Bradwardine Simon Briselee John Stretley Richard Ravenser John Sheppey John Mackworth Robert Flemming George Fitzhugh Geoffrey Simeon Thomas Wolsey John Constable George Heneage John Taylor

Early modern	Matthew Parker Francis Mallet John Whitgift William Wickham Ralph Griffin John Rainolds William Cole Laurence Stanton Roger Parker Anthony Topham Michael Honywood Daniel Brevint Samuel Fuller Abraham Campion Richard Willis Robert Cannon Edward Gee Edward Willes Thomas Cheney William George John Green Hon James Yorke Robert Richardson Richard Cust Sir Richard Kaye

Late modern	George Gordon John Ward Thomas Garnier James Jeremie Joseph Blakesley William Butler Edward Wickham Thomas Fry Robert Mitchell David Dunlop Hon Oliver Fiennes Brandon Jackson Alec Knight Philip Buckler

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