Decimus Govett
Decimus Storry Govett (1827 – 30 August 1912) was an Anglican priest in the last decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th.[1]
Govett was born in 1827 in Staines, Middlesex, the sixth son of 11 children born to Rev. Robert Govett, the Vicar of Staines, and Sarah Romaine.[2][3][4] Civil servant William Govett Romaine was his eldest brother, while four of his brothers were ordained into the Church of England, including theologian Robert Govett.[5]
He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford. After ordination he held curacies at Ashford, Staines and Frampton Cotterell and was then a chaplain at Antibes, Nice and Marseilles; after which he became archdeacon, then Dean of Gibraltar.[6] He died on 30 August 1912.[7]
Notes
- ^ "Role overseas". Archived from the original on 30 July 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1917
- ^ 1851 England Census
- ^ Who was Who 1897-1990. London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ^ Seip, David E. (24 April 2018). A Victorian Dissenter: Robert Govett and the Doctrine of Millennial Reward. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-5326-1834-5. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
- ^ Deans of Gibraltar Archived July 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Obituary: The Dean Of Gibraltar". The Times, 3 September 1912, p. 7.
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Preceded by Inaugural appointment | Dean of Gibraltar 1905 – 1912 | Succeeded by |
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- Edward Burrow
- Decimus Govett
- Gilbert Sissons
- Thomas Buckton
- Lonsdale Ragg
- James Johnston
- Basil Ney
- Daniel Pina Cabral
- Ken Robinson
- Howell Sasser
- Alan Woods
- David Sutch
- Geoff Johnston (Acting)
- Geoff Johnston
- David Waller
Italy and Malta
- Cecil Bisshopp
- Thomas Le Mesurier
- John Cleugh
- Ambrose Hardy
- Arthur Cartwright
- Franklyn Lushington
- Daniel Collyer
- Ernest Philpott
- Frederick Bailey
- Douglas Wanstall
- George Church
- John Evans (became Archdeacon in Italy)
- John Evans (previously Archdeacon of Malta)
- George Westwell
- Eric Devenport
- Bill Edebohls (first Archdeacon of Italy and Malta)
- Gordon Reid
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- Arthur Siddall (later additionally Archdeacon of Switzerland)
- Jonathan Boardman
- Vickie Sims
- Geoff Johnston (Acting)
- David Waller
Eastern Archdeaconry
- John Sharp, Archdeacon in South-Eastern Europe
- Stephen Skemp
- Geoffrey Evans, Archdeacon of the Aegean and the Danube
- Jeremy Peake (first Archdeacon of the Eastern Archdeaconry)
- Patrick Curran
- Colin Williams, Archdeacon of Europe
- Adèle Kelham (Acting)
- Leslie Nathaniel
- Henry Hearsey
- Brian Matthews
- Ronald Jennison
- John Livingstone
- Peter Duplock, Archdeacon of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
- Peter Duplock (first Archdeacon of North-West Europe)
- Geoffrey Allen
- Dirk van Leeuwen
- John de Wit
- Paul Vrolijk
- Sam Van Leer
/France
- Eric McLellan, Archdeacon in France
- John Livingstone, Archdeacon of Northern France
- Peter Sertin
- Brian Lea
- Martin Draper
- Anthony Wells (first Archdeacon of France)
- Ken Letts
- Ian Naylor
- Meurig Williams, Archdeacon of France and Monaco
- Peter Hooper
- Thomas Quin
- Anthony Nind
- Peter Hawker
- John Williams
- Arthur Siddall, Archdeacon of Italy and Malta
- Peter Potter
- Adèle Kelham
- Peter Hooper
and Northern Europe
- Brian Horlock
- Gerald Brown
- David Ratcliff, Archdeacon of Scandinavia and Germany
- Mark Oakley (first Archdeacon of Germany and Northern Europe)
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- Jonathan Lloyd
- The Archdeacon of Switzerland (Acting)
- Colin Williams, Archdeacon of Europe
- John Newsome (Acting)
- Leslie Nathaniel
- Thomas Buckton, Archdeacon in Spain/the Peninsula and North Africa
- Edward Eliot, Archdeacon in Italy and the French Riviera
- Gordon Reid, Archdeacon in Europe
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