Trevor Beeson

The Very Reverend
Trevor Randall Beeson
OBE, AKC, FKC
Dean of Winchester
In office
1987–1996
Personal details
Born 2 March 1926
Nationality British
Religion Church of England

Trevor Randall Beeson OBE (born 2 March 1926) was Dean of Winchester in the last two decades of the 20th century. He is also an ecclesiastical obituarist.[1]

Beeson was educated at King's College London, studied theology at St Boniface College, Warminster, and ordained in 1952.[2] He began his career with a curacy in Leadgate, County Durham, after which he was Priest in charge of St Chad, Stockton-on-Tees[3] and then on the staff of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square.[4] Following this he was Vicar of Ware, Hertfordshire and Canon Treasurer of Westminster.[5] He served as Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons from 1982 to 1987,[2] before his elevation to the Deanery. In retirement Beeson has written a book about his fellow Deans.[6]

In 1976 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred on Beeson the Lambeth degree of Master of Arts.[2] He was appointed OBE in the 1997 New Year Honours "for services to the Church of England, particularly as Dean of Winchester Cathedral."[7] He was awarded an honorary DLitt degree by Southampton University in 1999.[2]

Publications

Notes

  1. Reflections on the art of the obituarist Tuffill,H: Romsey and District Historical Society: Bulletin no 75, dated 11 May 1997
  2. 1 2 3 4 BEESON, Very Rev. Trevor Randall, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011, accessed 29 March 2012
  3. GENUKI
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0
  5. Westminster Abbey- new treasurer The Times Thursday, 23 Mar 1978; pg. 19; Issue 60264; col E
  6. The Deans, Beeson, T.R: Canterbury, SCM, 2004, ISBN 0-334-02987-2.
  7. Supplement to the London Gazette, 1 December 1996
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Michael Staffurth Stancliffe
Dean of Winchester
1987 1996
Succeeded by
Michael Stanley Till
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