John Hughes (priest)

The Very Reverend John Chester Hughes BA

Provost of Leicester Cathedral
In office 1963–1978

The Very Rev John Chester Hughes^[1] was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the 20th century.
He was born on 20 February 1924, educated at Dulwich College and Durham University and ordained in 1950.^[2] He began his career with a curacy at St Alban, Westcliff-on-Sea after which he was Succentor at Chelmsford Cathedral. He then held incumbencies at St Barnabas, Leicester and St St John the Baptist, Croxton Kerrial.^[3] In 1963 he became Provost of Leicester Cathedral, a post he held for 15 years. His last post before retirement in 1987 was as Vicar of St Nicholas, Bringhurst. He died on 16 October 2008.^[4]

Notes

↑ Photo of Hughes
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
↑ Who's Who London, A & C Black, 1970 ISBN 0-7136-1140-5
↑ Times on-line

Church of England titles
Preceded by Richard John Forrester Mayston	Provost of Leicester Cathedral 1963–1978	Succeeded by Alan Christopher Warren

Provosts and Deans of Leicester

Provosts	Frederick MacNutt Herbert Jones Mervyn Armstrong Richard Mayston John Hughes Alan Warren Derek Hole Vivienne Faull (became Dean)

Deans	Vivienne Faull (previously Provost) David Monteith

Diocese of Leicester

Leicester Cathedral Bishop's Lodge, Leicester St Martin's House, Leicester Launde Abbey

Office holders	John Holbrook, Acting Bishop of Leicester Martyn Snow, Bishop-elect of Leicester Christopher Boyle, Assistant Bishop of Leicester AEO: Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough David Monteith, Dean of Leicester David Newman, Archdeacon of Loughborough Tim Stratford, Archdeacon of Leicester

Historic offices	Provost of Leicester (1927–2000; see Dean of Leicester)

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