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Frank Selwyn Macaulay Bennett was a reforming
dean
[1] of
Chester
[2] in the first half of the 20th century
[3] and an
Anglican
scholar .
[4]
He was born on 28 October 1866 and educated at
Sherborne and
Keble College, Oxford .
[5] He was
private chaplain to
Bishop Jayne of Chester and then held
incumbencies at
Portwood and
Hawarden
[6] before his elevation to the
deanery .
[7] A man who made
Chester Cathedral "the home of the
Diocese ,
[8] he died on 14 November 1947.
Notes
^ "The cathedral 'open and free' Dean Bennett of Chester" Bruce A Liverpool Liverpool University Press, 2000
ISBN
0-85323-924-X
^
"Foreign News: More Good Than Harm?" .
Time . 16 May 1927. Archived from
the original on 25 November 2010.
^
British History On-line
^ Amongst others he wrote "Coué and his Gospel of Health", 1923; "A Soul in the Making", 1924; "The Nature of a Cathedral", 1925; "Expecto", 1926; "Mary Jane and Harry John", 1927; "On Cathedrals in the Meantime", 1928; and "The Resurrection of the Dead", 1929.
British Library web site accessed 8 September 2010.
^
"Who was Who" 1897-1990 London,
A & C Black , 1991
ISBN
0-7136-3457-X
^
Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947/48 Oxford,
OUP , 1947
^
The Times , 20 March 1937; pg. 9; Issue 47638; col G "Ecclesiastical News New Dean Of Chester".
^ "Dean F. S. M. Bennett Cathedral Ideals". The Times . 15 November 1947; pg. 6; Issue 50919; col G.
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