Frank Bennett (scholar)

Frank Selwyn Macaulay Bennett was a reforming Dean^[1] of Chester^[2] in the first half of the 20th century^[3] and an eminent Anglican scholar.^[4]

He was born on 28 October 1866 and educated at Sherborne and Keble College, Oxford.^[5] He was Private Chaplain to Bishop Jayne of Chester and then held incumbencies at Portwood and Hawarden^[6] before his elevation to the Deanery.^[7] A man who made Chester Cathedral "the home of the Diocese,^[8] he died on 14 November 1947.

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Preceded by John Lionel Darby	Dean of Chester 1920 – 1937	Succeeded by Norman Henry Tubbs

v t e Deans of Chester 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

v t e Diocese of Chester Chester Cathedral Bishop's House, Chester Church House, Chester St John's, Chester Office holders The Bishop of Chester, Peter Forster The Bishop suffragan of Birkenhead, Keith Sinclair The Bishop suffragan of Stockport, Robert Atwell AEO: Glyn Webster, Bishop suffragan of Beverley The Dean of Chester, Gordon McPhate The Archdeacon of Chester, Michael Gilbertson The Archdeacon of Macclesfield, Ian Bishop

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Name	Bennett, Frank Selwyn Macaulay
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Date of birth	1866
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Date of death	1947
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