Decimus Govett

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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.{{cite web |url=http://geocities.com/CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Gibraltar.html |title=Role overseas |access-date=2010-10-09 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090730200548/http://geocities.com/CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Gibraltar.html |archive-date=July 30, 2009 }}

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.London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–19171851 England CensusWho was Who 1897-1990. London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}} 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.{{cite book |last1=Seip |first1=David E. |title=A Victorian Dissenter: Robert Govett and the Doctrine of Millennial Reward |date=24 April 2018 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-5326-1834-5 |page=90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vQ5ZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&dq=Decimus+Storry+Govett |access-date=11 November 2023 |language=en}}

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.[http://www.gibconnect.com/~holytrinity/lower.php?filename=deans.php Deans of Gibraltar] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711092855/http://www.gibconnect.com/~holytrinity/lower.php?filename=deans.php |date=July 11, 2011 }} He died on 30 August 1912."Obituary: The Dean Of Gibraltar". The Times, 3 September 1912, p. 7.