Richard Mayston

The Very Reverend Richard John Forrester Mayston CBE, MA

Provost of Leicester Cathedral
In office 1958–1963

The Very Rev Richard John Forrester Mayston was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the 20th century.^[1]
He was born in Dublin on 23 January 1907, educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1931.^[2] He began his career with a curacy in Holywood. Commissioned into the Royal Army Chaplains' Department, he served until 1958.^[3] He then became Provost of Leicester Cathedral, a post he held until his death on 13 May 1963.^[4]

Notes

↑ The Mayston Chair
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
↑ “Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
↑ The Times, Tuesday, 14 May 1963; pg. 17; Issue 55700; col B Very Rev. R. J. F. Mayston Provost Of Leicester

Church of England titles
Preceded by Mervyn Armstrong	Provost of Leicester Cathedral 1958– 1963	Succeeded by John Chester Hughes

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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