Michael Tavinor

Michael Edward Tavinor (born 11 September 1953)^[1] is the current Dean of Hereford.

Life and career

Parents – Harold (d.1968) and Elsie (d.1989) Tavinor. Born Hayes, Middlesex. Educated – Minet Primary School, Hayes, Middlesex, Bishopshalt School, Hillingdon. University of Durham 1972-5. BA Hons in Music, Organ Scholar, University College. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1975-6, Postgraduate Certificate in Education. King’s College, London, 1976-7, Master of Music, Associate of King’s College. Associate of the Royal College of Organists, 1977. Teacher (music) Langleybury School, Watford, 1977-9. Studied for Ordination, Ripon College, Cuddesdon, 1979-82, Venerable English College, Rome, 1981-2. University of Oxford, BA (Theology), 1982, MA, 1986. Ordained Deacon, June 1982. Ordained Priest, June 1983. Assistant Curate, St Peter's Church, Ealing, London, 1982-5. Precentor, Sacrist and Minor Canon, Ely Cathedral, 1985-90, with Priest-in-Charge, Stuntney, 1985-90. Vicar, Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, 1990-2002, with Twyning 1998-2002. Honorary Canon, Gloucester Cathedral, 1997-2002. Dean of Hereford May 2002 to present. Hon Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians, 2006. President of Church Music Society, 2009. Trinity St Davids, Lampeter, Master of Theology, 2010. Associate of the Royal School of Church Music, 2015.

Publications, compositions and contributions

(Ed.,) ‘Titles and Ermine Fall Behind’, Ode to Shakespeare, by William Boyce (1977.) Pilgrim Guide, Tewksbury Abbey, Canterbury Press, 1998. Pilgrim Guide, Hereford Cathedral, Canterbury Press, 2002. Hymn tune ‘Tewkesbury Abbey’ in New English Praise, Canterbury Press, 2006. Surely the Lord is in this place (SATB anthem), Encore Publications, 2005. Strengthen for Service, 100 Years of the English Hymnal, Canterbury Press, 2006. Sacred Space – House of God, Gate of Heaven, Continuum, 2007. Hymns Ancient and Modern and Henry Williams Baker, Leominster History Study Group, 2011. Saints and Sinners of the Marches, (with Canon Sandy Elliott), Logaston Press, 2012. Shrines of the Saints in England and Wales, Canterbury Press, 2016.

References

↑ Who's Who 2012 – TAVINOR, Michael Edward

Church of England titles
Preceded by Robert Willis	Dean of Hereford 2002–present	Incumbent

Deans of Hereford

High Medieval	Ralph Geoffrey Richard Hugh de Breusa Hugh de Mapenor Henry Thomas de Bosebir Ralph de Maidstone Stephen Thorne Ancelin/Anselm Giles de Avenbury John de Aqua-Blanca

Late Medieval	Stephen de Ledebury Thomas Trilleck William de Feriby William Bermingham John de Middleton John Harold John Prophet Thomas Felde John Bagshaw John Stanwey Henry Shelford John Berew Richard Pede Thomas Chaundler Oliver King John Hervey

Early modern	Reginald West Thomas Wolsey Edmund Frowcester Gamaliel Clifton Hugh Curwen Edmund Daniel John Ellis John Watkins Charles Langford Edward Doughtie Richard Montagu Oliver Lloyd Silvanus Griffiths Daniel Price John Richardson Jonathan Brown Herbert Croft Thomas Hodges George Benson John Tyler Robert Clavering John Harris Edward Cresset Edmund Castle John Egerton Francis Webber Nathan Wetherell

Late modern	William Leigh George Grelton Robert Carr Edward Mellish Edward Grey John Merewether Richard Dawes George Herbert Wentworth Leigh Reginald Waterfield Hedley Burrows Robert Price Norman Rathbone Peter Haynes Robert Willis Michael Tavinor

Diocese of Hereford

Hereford Cathedral The Palace, Hereford

Office holders	The Bishop of Hereford, Richard Frith The Bishop suffragan-Archdeacon of Ludlow, Alistair Magowan AEO: Jonathan Goodall, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet The Dean of Hereford, Michael Tavinor The Archdeacon of Hereford, Paddy Benson

Historic offices	Archdeacon of Shropshire/Salop (11th century–1876; renamed to Ludlow)

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