Christopher Spafford

Christopher Garnett Howsin Spafford was Provost of Newcastle from 1976^[1] to 1989.

Spafford was born into an ecclesiastical family^[2] on 10 September 1924, educated at Marlborough College and St John's College, Cambridge and ordained in 1950.^[3] After curacies at Brighouse and Huddersfield he held incumbencies at Hebden Bridge, Thornhill and Shrewsbury.^[4] He was Provost of Newcastle Cathedral from 1976 to 1989.^[5]

Reverend Christopher Spafford died in September 2011.^[6]

References

↑ Newcastle Libraries
↑ His father was the Rev. Canon Douglas Norman Spafford, sometime Vicar of Walton-on-the-Hill > Crockford's Clerical Directory 1948 Oxford, OUP, 1947
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
↑ Who’s Who 1996 London A & C Black, 1995 ISBN 0-7136-4255-6]
↑ ancestral-indexes
↑ "St Chad' s, Shrewsbury". http://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/. ukpressonline. Retrieved 20 January 2015.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Conrad Clifton Wolters	Provost of Newcastle 1976 – 1989	Succeeded by Nicholas Guy Coulton

Provosts and Deans of Newcastle

Provosts	John Bateman-Champain George Brigstocke Noel Kennaby Clifton Wolters Christopher Spafford Nicholas Coulton (became Dean)

Deans	Nicholas Coulton Chris Dalliston

Diocese of Newcastle

Newcastle Cathedral Bishop's House, Gosforth Church House, North Shields

Office holders	The Bishop of Newcastle, Christine Hardman The Assistant Bishop of Newcastle, Frank White AEO: Glyn Webster, Bishop suffragan of Beverley The Dean of Newcastle, Chris Dalliston The Archdeacon of Northumberland, Geoff Miller The Archdeacon of Lindisfarne, Peter Robinson

Historic offices	Provost of Newcastle (1931–2000; see Dean of Newcastle)

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