English Anglican clergyman (1939–2023)
Alexander Francis Knight , OBE [ 1] (24 July 1939 – 21 November 2023) was an English Anglican clergyman who was the Dean of Lincoln from 1998 to 2006.[ 2] [ 3]
Biography
Alexander Francis Knight was born into an ecclesiastical family on 24 July 1939.[ 4] He was educated at Taunton School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge . Ordained in 1954, after a spell as a curate at Hemel Hempstead [ 5] he became chaplain at his old school and then director of the Bloxham Project .[ 6] 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 [ 7] and a canon residentiary at Winchester Cathedral .[ 8]
Knight was appointed OBE in 2006.[ 9] He died on 21 November 2023, at the age of 84.[ 10]
Notes
^ "The Very Reverend Alec Knight OBE" . www.sja.org.uk . Retrieved 8 January 2015 .
^ BBC News
^ "Resignation details" . Archived from the original on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2009 .
^ His father was the Rev Benjamin Edward Knight Who's Who 2008: 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 .
^ Church News The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 10 August 1982; pg. 10; Issue 61308
^ ‘KNIGHT, Very Rev. Alexander Francis’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, November 2016 accessed 7 October 2017
^ "Details of honour" . Archived from the original on 3 June 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2009 .
^ "The Very Rev Dr Alec Knight OBE KStJ" . The Times. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023 .
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