Michael Stancliffe
{{Short description|English Anglican priest}}
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| alma_mater = Haileybury; Trinity College, Oxford
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Michael Staffurth Stancliffe[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp77789 NPG details] (8 April 1916 – 26 March 1987) was an English Anglican priest who served as the Dean of Winchester from 1969 to 1986.
Career
Stancliffe trained for ordination at Lincoln Theological College, and was ordained deacon in 1940 and priest in 1941.{{Cite web|url=https://www.crockford.org.uk/people/34796/the-very-revd-michael-staffurth-stancliffe|title=Crockford's Clerical Directory: The Very Revd Michael Staffurth Stancliffe|access-date=18 February 2021}} He was a curate at St James', Southbroom, Devizes 1940–1943 before becoming the priest-in-charge at Ramsbury 1943–1944, and then curate of Cirencester and priest-in-charge of Holy Trinity, Watermoor, Cirencester, 1944–1949.
He was then a Master and Chaplain at Westminster School 1949–1957 and also Preacher to Lincoln's Inn, 1954–1957.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} Following this he was Rector of St Margaret's, Westminster, a Canon of Westminster Abbey 1957–1969, and Speaker's Chaplain 1961–1969"Who was Who" 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}} before his elevation to the Deanery of Winchester.
He was a member of General Synod 1970–1980 and Chairman of the Council for Places of Worship, 1972–1975; Fellow of Winchester College 1973. He was also considered for the post of Bishop of Carlisle.[http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk:8080/Archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='AA/AP/Ramsey/4-287/1966/93/8-9') National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
His son, David Stancliffe, was the Bishop of Salisbury.
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Category:People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College