Hugh Geoffrey Dickinson

The Very Rev The Hon  Hugh Geoffrey Dickinson (born 17 November 1929) was Dean of Salisbury from 1986 until his retirement in 1996.^[1]

Born in 1929 and educated at Westminster School^[2] and Trinity College, Oxford,^[3] in May 1944 he was granted the rank of a baron's younger son, being the younger grandson of Willoughby Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson.

He married Jean Storey in June 1963 and together they have two grown-up children: Teresa (b. July 1964) and Benjamin (b. June 1966).^[4]

He was ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1957. He was a Curate at St Michael, Melksham,^[5] then Chaplain of firstly Trinity College, Cambridge then Winchester College. After this, in 1969, he became the Bishop’s Adviser for Adult Education in the Diocese of Coventry and was subsequently Vicar of St Michael’s, St Albans from 1977^[6] until 1986 and his elevation to the Deanery.

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Preceded by Sydney Hall Evans	Dean of Salisbury 1986 –1996	Succeeded by Derek Watson

References

^ Official details
^ thePeerage.com
^ “Who was Who”1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
^ thePeerage.com
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing ISBN 9780715110300
^ The Very Revd Hugh Dickinson biography on Naxos AudioBooks

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17th century	John Gordon • John Williams • John Bowle • Edmund Mason • Richard Bayley • Ralph Brideoke • Thomas Pierce • Robert Woodward

18th century	Edward Young • John Younger • John Clark • Thomas Greene (dean) • Rowney Noel • John Ekins

19th century	Charles Talbot • Hugh Nicholas Pearson • Francis Lear • Henry Parr Hamilton • George David Boyle

20th century	Allan Becher Webb • William Page Roberts • Andrew Ewbank Burn • John Hugh Granville Randolph • Edward Lowry Henderson • Henry Charles Robins • Robert Hamilton Moberly • Kenneth William Haworth • William Fenton Morley • Sydney Hall Evans • Hugh Geoffrey Dickinson • The Very Revd. Derek Watson

21st century	June Osborne

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Name	Evans, Sydney Hall
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