William Richard Wood Stephens

The Very Reverend Dr William Richard Wood Stephens DD FSA
Dean of Winchester
In office 1895 – 1902^[1]
Personal details
Born	5 October 1839 Gloucestershire
Died	22 December 1902^[2]
Nationality	British
Religion	Church of England

William Richard Wood Stephens was Dean of Winchester in the late 19th and early 20th centuries^[3].
He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and graduated in 1862. Ordained in 1865, he began his career with a curacy in Staines, after which he was Vicar of Mid Lavant, a Lecturer at Chichester Theological College and Rector of Woolbeding^[4] before his elevation to the Deanery. His death was attributed to eating oysters at a banquet in honour of the Mayor of Winchester^[5]^[6].

Notes

^ "Houses of Benedictine monks: Priory of St Swithun, Winchester". A History of the County of Hampshire 2: 108–115. 1973. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38094. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
^ The Times, Tuesday, 23 Dec 1902; pg. 4; Issue 36958; col D Obituary. The Dean Of Winchester
^ “Who was Who”1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
^ ”The Clergy List” London, William Clowes and Son,1879
^ Emsworth heritage Project
^ Hayling U3A

Church of England titles
Preceded by George William Kitchin	Dean of Winchester 1895–1902	Succeeded by William Mordaunt Furneaux

Deans of Winchester

16th century	William Kingsmill • Roger Tonge • John Mason • Edmund Stewarde • John Warner • Francis Newton • John Watson • Laurence Humphrey • Martin Heton • George Abbott

17th century	Thomas Morton • John Young • Alexander Hyde • William Clark • Richard Meggott • John Wickart

18th century	William Trimnell • Charles Naylor • Zachary Pearce • Thomas Cheyney • Jonathan Shipley • Newton Ogle

19th century	Robert Holmes • Thomas Rennell • Thomas Garnier • John Bramston • George William Kitchin • William Richard Wood Stephens

20th century	William Mordaunt Furneaux • William Holden Hutton • Edward Gordon Selwyn • Oswin Harvard Gibbs-Smith • Michael Staffurth Stancliffe • Trevor Randall Beeson • Michael Stanley Till

21st century	James Edgar Atwell

Office holders in the Diocese of Winchester

The Bishop of Winchester • The Bishop of Southampton • The Bishop of Basingstoke • The Dean of Winchester • The Dean of Guernsey • The Dean of Jersey The Archdeacon of The Channel Islands The Archdeacon of Winchester The Archdeacon of Bournemouth

Persondata
Name	Stephens, William Richard Wood
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Date of birth	5 October 1839
Place of birth	Gloucestershire
Date of death	22 December 1902
Place of death