Dick Wingfield-Digby

Richard Shuttleworth "Dick" Wingfield-Digby (19 August 1911 29 January 2007)[1] was the Dean of Peterborough in the Church of England from 1966 until 1980.[2]

He was educated at the Nautical College, Pangbourne and Christ's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1937 and began his career with a curacy at St Andrew’s, Rugby.[3] He then became a Chaplain to the Forces and was a Prisoner of war from 1940 until 1945.[4] When peace returned he became Vicar of All Saints, Newmarket[5] and then Rural Dean of Bury[6] before his elevation to the Deanery.[7]

References

  1. The Very Rev Dick Wingfield Digby
  2. The Times, 26 Jan 1980; pg. 16; Issue 60534; col A Resignation of the Dean of Peterborough
  3. Church web-site
  4. Who's Who 1970 p2163 ISBN 0-7136-1140-5
  5. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  6. Bury Parish Church
  7. Church Times Obituary
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Noel Charles Christopherson
Dean of Peterborough
19661980
Succeeded by
Randolph George Wise


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