The Venerable Alan Stanley Giles CB, CBE, MA was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the 20th century.[1]
He was born into an ecclesiastical family [2] on 28 May 1902[3] and educated at Manchester Grammar School and The Queen's College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1932[4] and began his career as Curate of St Ebbe's, Oxford and Chaplain of Christ Church. From 1934 to 1959 he was an RAF Chaplain, rising through the service to become its Archdeacon (Chaplain-in-Chief) from 1953.[5] An Honorary Chaplain to the King then Queen, he was Dean of Jersey from 1959 [6] to 1970.[7] He died on 26 March 1975.
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| Preceded by Leslie Wright |
Chaplain-in-Chief of the RAF 1953–1959 |
Succeeded by Francis William Cocks |
| Preceded by Matthew Le Marinel |
Dean of Jersey 1959–1970 |
Succeeded by Thomas Ashworth Goss |
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