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He has previously worked as chaplain and fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge; vicar of Christ Church, Southgate; and director of ministry and canon residentiary at Gloucester Cathedral.

The former dean had previously served as archdeacon in the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds and as residentiary canon of Ripon Cathedral.

He became Rector of Southam in 1995 and was later appointed canon residentiary of Coventry Cathedral.

The pater was only a Canon Residentiary in those days.

Fortified with the recollections of this pilgrimage, and some out-of-the-way facts told to me by the residentiary Canon, my dear old friend Bishop Abraham, I started on a two hours’ walk with the Poet and Professor Jowett.