John Foster (priest)
The Very Rev John William Foster BEM was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the twentieth century.
He was born on 5 August 1921 and served in the Leicestershire Yeomanry from 1939 to 1946. After studying at St Aidan’s College, Birkenhead he was ordained in 1955.[1] After a curacy in Loughborough he moved to Hong Kong. He was Chaplain to the Hong Kong Defence Force and of the territory's cathedral.[2] In 1960 he became its Precentor and in 1963 its Dean, a post he held for a decade. He was the Vicar of Lythe from 1973 to 1978; and Dean of Guernsey from then until 1988.
He died on 7 March 2000.[3]
References
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 0-10-815347-6
- ↑ Cathedral web site
- ↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
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| Preceded by Barry Dorn Till |
Dean of Hong Kong 1963–1973 |
Succeeded by Rex Alan Howe |
| Preceded by Frederick Walter Cogman |
Dean of Guernsey 1978–1988 |
Succeeded by Jeffery Robert Fenwick |
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