Frank Bennett (scholar)

Frank Selwyn Macaulay Bennett was a reforming Dean^[1] of Chester^[2] in the first half of the 20th century^[3] and an eminent Anglican scholar.^[4]
He was born on 28 October 1866 and educated at Sherborne and Keble College, Oxford.^[5] He was Private Chaplain to Bishop Jayne of Chester and then held incumbencies at Portwood and Hawarden^[6] before his elevation to the Deanery.^[7] A man who made Chester Cathedral “the home of the Diocese,^[8] he died on 14 November 1947.

Notes

^ "The cathedral 'open and free' Dean Bennett of Chester" Bruce A Liverpool Liverpool university Press, 2000 ISBN 085323924X
^ Time Magazine
^ British History On-line
^ Amongst others he wrote “Coué and his Gospel of Health”, 1923; “A Soul in the Making”, 1924; “The Nature of a Cathedral”, 1925; “Expecto”, 1926; “Mary Jane and Harry John”, 1927; “On Cathedrals in the Meantime”, 1928; and “The Resurrection of the Dead”, 1929 > British Library web site accessed 18:18 GMT Wednesday 8th September, 2010
^ “Who was Who”1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947/48 Oxford, OUP, 1947
^ The Times, Saturday, Mar 20, 1937; pg. 9; Issue 47638; col G Ecclesiastical News New Dean Of Chester
^ Dean F. S. M. Bennett Cathedral Ideals The Times Saturday, Nov 15, 1947; pg. 6; Issue 50919; col G

Church of England titles
Preceded by John Lionel Darby	Dean of Chester 1920 – 1937	Succeeded by Norman Henry Tubbs

Deans of Chester

Early modern	Thomas Clerk • Henry Man • William Clyff • Richard Walker • John Piers • Richard Langworth • Robert Dorset • Thomas Mawdesley • John Nutter • William Barlow • Henry Parry • Thomas Mallory • William Nichols • Henry Bridgeman • James Arderne • Laurence Fogg • Walter Offley • Thomas Allen • Thomas Brooke • William Smith • George Cotton

Late modern	Hugh Cholmondeley • Robert Hodgson • Peter Vaughan • Edward Copleston • Henry Phillpotts • George Davys • Frederick Anson • John Howson • John Darby • Frank Bennett • Norman Tubbs • Michael Gibbs • George Addleshaw • Ingram Cleasby • Stephen Smalley • Gordon McPhate

Office holders in the Diocese of Chester

The Bishop of Chester • The Bishop of Birkenhead • The Bishop of Stockport • The Dean of Chester • The Archdeacon of Chester The Archdeacon of Macclesfield

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Name	Bennett, Frank Selwyn Macaulay
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Date of birth	1866
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Date of death	1947
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