Frederick MacNutt

The Very Reverend Frederick MacNutt MA
Provost of Leicester
In office 1927–1938

Frederick Brodie MacNutt (26 September 1873 – 17 July 1949^[1]) was an Anglican priest and author in the first half of the 20th century.

MacNutt was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[2] He was ordained in 1898 and was a curate at Holy Trinity, Beckenham, and St James's Church, Piccadilly.^[3] After this he was curate-in-charge of Christ Church, Wimbledon, then vicar of St John’s, Cheltenham, and St Matthew’s, Surbiton.^[4] From 1909 to 1918 he was a canon residentiary at Southwark Cathedral. In 1918 he became the incumbent of St Martin's, Leicester, and also archdeacon of the Leicester area of the diocese. When St Martin's Church became a cathedral he became its first provost, resigning in 1938. From then until his retirement in 1946 he was a canon^[5] of Canterbury Cathedral^[6]

Works

• The Inevitable Christ: Sermons preached in Southwark Cathedral, 1911
• Classics of the Inner Life, 1924
• The Early Diocese of Leicester, 1926
• A War Primer, an Anthology of War Prayers, Intercessions, Prayers of Devotion, 1939
• Four Freedoms, Atlantic and Christian, 1943

Notes

1. "Canon F. B. Macnutt Preacher And Author", The Times, 19 July 1949, p. 9.
2. "Macnutt, Frederick Brodie (MNT894FB)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. Who was Who 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947-48, Oxford, OUP, 1947.
5. Cathedral library
6. "Ecclesiastical News", The Times, 6 March 1946, p. 7.