Ingram Cleasby

(Thomas Wood) Ingram Cleasby was Dean of Chester in the latter part of the 20th century.[1]
He was born on March 27, 1920 and educated at Sedbergh and Magdalen College, Oxford.[2] After World War II service with the Border Regiment he was ordained in 1954. Initially a Curate at Huddersfield Parish Church[3] he became Chaplain to the Archbishop of York in 1952. Following this he was Anglican Chaplain to the University of Nottingham and then Archdeacon of Chesterfield[4] before his elevation to the Deanery.[5] Described in his Daily Telegraph obituary as a “broad, inclusive, traditional Anglican”[6] he died on February 9, 2009.

Notes

  1. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 (100th edition), Church House Publishing (ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0)
  2. ^ Who's Who2008: London, A & C Black (ISBN 978-0-7136-7257-6)
  3. ^ Church web site
  4. ^ Dr. Allen's Choice Of Archdeacon The Times Monday, Nov 26, 1962; pg. 7; Issue 55558; col C
  5. ^ British History On-line
  6. ^ Issue no 47,825 dated March 9, 2009
Church of England titles
Preceded by
George William Outram Addleshaw		 Dean of Chester
1978 – 1986		 Succeeded by
Stephen Stewart Smalley
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