Gordon McPhate

Gordon Ferguson McPhate is the current Dean of Chester.[1] McPhate was born on 1 June 1950[2] and educated at Aberdeen University and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. After a spell as a tutor in Physiology at Clare College, he was ordained in 1979.[3] He later held lectureships at Guy’s Hospital and the University of St Andrews.[4] He was an honorary curate at Sanderstead,[5] then an honorary Minor Canon at Southwark Cathedral[6] and an honorary chaplain at St Andrews,[7] before his elevation[8] to the Deanery.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ Debrett's People of Today London, Debrett's, 2008 ISBN 9781870520959
  2. ^ Burke's Peerage
  3. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 (100th edition), Church House Publishing (ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0).
  4. ^ Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 9780713672576
  5. ^ exploring surrey's past
  6. ^ Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) ISBN 0715180886
  7. ^ ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0567087468
  8. ^ London Gazette
  9. ^ Anglican communion
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Stephen Stewart Smalley		 Dean of Chester
2002 – -		 Succeeded by
Current incumbent
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