Frederick William Dillistone
The Very Rev Frederick William Dillistone, DD was the second Dean of Liverpool.[1] He was born on 9 May 1903[2] and educated at Brighton College and Brasenose College, Oxford. Ordained in 1928,[3] he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Jude’s Southsea. Later he was a tutor at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and then Vicar of St Andrew in the same city.[4] From 1938 to 1945 he was Professor of Theology at Wycliffe College, Toronto and from then until 1952 held the same position at the Episcopal Divinity School at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Moving back to England he was Canon Residentiary and Chancellor of Liverpool Cathedral from 1952 to 1956 and then its Dean until 1963.[5] From 1964 until his retirement in 1970, he was Fellow and Chaplain of Oriel College, Oxford. An eminent author,[6] he died on 5 October 1993.[7]
Notes
- ^ National Archives
- ^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1940-41 Oxford, OUP, 1941
- ^ Church web-site
- ^ The Times, Tuesday, Jan 31, 1956; pg. 10; Issue 53442; col D Ecclesiastical News New Dean Of Liverpool
- ^ Amongst others he wrote “The Significance of the Cross”, 1945; “The Structure of the Divine Society”, 1951; “Christianity and Communication”, 1956; “Dramas of Salvation”, 1967; “Charles Raven: a biography”, 1975; “The Power of Symbols”, 1986; and “Language and the Worship of the Church”, 1990 > British Library web site accessed 20:38 GMT Saturday 27th February, 2010
- ^ Independent obituary
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Dillistone, Frederick William |
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1903 |
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1990 |
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