Alec Knight
{{Short description|English Anglican clergyman (1939–2023)}}
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Alexander Francis Knight, OBE{{cite web|url=http://www.sja.org.uk/sja/about-us/governance-and-policy/governance-structure/current-trustees/the-very-reverend-alec-knight.aspx|title=The Very Reverend Alec Knight OBE|work=www.sja.org.uk|accessdate=8 January 2015}} (24 July 1939 – 21 November 2023) was an English Anglican clergyman who was the Dean of Lincoln from 1998 to 2006.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/4155422.stm BBC News]{{Cite web |url=http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page10124 |title=Resignation details |access-date=27 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616041844/http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page10124 |archive-date=16 June 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
Biography
Alexander Francis Knight was born into an ecclesiastical family on 24 July 1939.His father was the Rev Benjamin Edward KnightWho's Who2008: London, A & C Black {{ISBN|978-0-7136-8555-8}} He was educated at Taunton School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1954, after a spell as a curate at Hemel HempsteadCrockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 (100th edition), Church House Publishing ({{ISBN|978-0-7151-1030-0}}) he became chaplain at his old school and then director of the Bloxham Project, an inter-school council to address the role of religion in schools.{{cite web|url=http://www.bloxhamproject.org.uk/|title=FreedomNames - The Full Service Domain People|publisher=|accessdate=8 January 2015}} From here he became Director of Studies at the Aston Training Scheme, then priest in charge of Easton and Martyr Worthy in Hampshire. Finally (before his elevation to the deanery), he became Archdeacon of BasingstokeChurch News The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 10 August 1982; pg. 10; Issue 61308 and a canon residentiary at Winchester Cathedral.‘KNIGHT, Very Rev. Alexander Francis’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, November 2016 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U23319, accessed 7 October 2017]
Knight was appointed OBE in 2006.{{Cite web |url=http://www.gos.gov.uk/497666/docs/262145/swhons06 |title=Details of honour |access-date=27 February 2009 |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100603034936/http%3A//www.gos.gov.uk/497666/docs/262145/swhons06 |archive-date=3 June 2010 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} He died on 21 November 2023, at the age of 84.{{cite news |title=The Very Rev Dr Alec Knight OBE KStJ |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/births-marriages-and-deaths-december-1-2023-v30mlqqf2 |access-date=1 December 2023 |publisher=The Times |date=1 December 2023}}
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Category:People educated at Taunton School
Category:Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Category:Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon