Dick Wingfield Digby
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Richard Shuttleworth Wingfield Digby (19 August 1911 – 29 January 2007[1] ) was the Dean of Peterborough in the Church of England from 1966 to 1980.[2] [3]
He was educated at the Nautical College, Pangbourne, and Christ's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1937 and began his ministry as a curate at St Andrew's, Rugby. He then became a chaplain to the Forces and was a prisoner of war from 1940 to 1945.[4] When peace returned he became vicar of All Saints, Newmarket [5] and then Rural Dean of Bury [6] before his appointment to the deanery.[7]
References
[edit ]- ^ "The Very Rev Dick Wingfield Digby". The Daily Telegraph . Archived from the original on 17 September 2018.
- ^ Geograph
- ^ The Times , 26 January 1980, "Resignation of the Dean of Peterborough", p. 16.
- ^ Who's Who 1970, p. 2163 ISBN 0-7136-1140-5
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
- ^ Bury Parish Church
- ^ Church Times obituary
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