List of deans of Grahamstown explained

This is a list of deans of Grahamstown. The dean is the incumbent of Grahamstown Cathedral, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. In addition, the dean has other duties and roles set out in the "Deed of Constitution and Statutes of the Chapter of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown" which is an appendix to the acts of the Diocese of Grahamstown. The 20th and current dean is Andrew John Hunter, who was appointed in 2008.

List of deans

1862 - John Mee 1863 - Frederick Henry Williams 1885 - Interregnum 1887 - Davis George Croghan 1889 - John Garraway Holmes (later Bishop of St Helena) 1900 - Francis Edward Carter 1912 - John Ranulph Vincent 1914 - Francis Robinson Phelps (later Bishop of Grahamstown, then Archbishop of Cape Town) 1916 - Bernard Williams 1928 - Edmund Keith Blundell 1934 - Frank Parker Crosse 1944 - James Morris Beaufort

1953 - John Henry Hodson 1964 - Kenneth Cyril Oram (later Bishop of Grahamstown) 1974 - Michael Nuttall (later Bishop of Pretoria, then Bishop of Natal) 1975 - Godfrey William Ernest Candler Ashby (later Bishop of St John's) 1980 - Roy Thomas Barker 1992 - Anthony Mdletshe (later Suffragan Bishop of Grahamstown, then Bishop of Zululand) 1993 - Chich Hewitt 2000 - John Stubbs 2007 - Interregnum 2008 - Andrew Hunter 2021 Mzinzisi Dyantyi

Notes and references

• Umbuliso. Newsletter of the Diocese of Grahamstown. 2008. 31. 2. .
• Book: Gould, Charles. Grahamstown Cathedral: A Guide and Short History. 1924. Grahamstown Diocesan Registry.
• Book: Charles. Gould. Jeanette. Eve. Grahamstown Cathedral: A Guide and Short History. 2011. Eastern Cape Reprints.
• Book: Venn, John. John Venn. Biolgraphical History of Gonville and Caius College 1349-1897. 1897. University Press. Cambridge.
• Book: Merriman. Nathaniel James. Nathaniel Merriman. Cooper. Charles James. Williams. Frederick Henry. Frederick Williams (priest). The South African Church Question. The Grahamstown Judgment. Decision ... in the Appeal of "Merriman V. Williams". Edited, with an Introduction, by Charles James Cooper ... New Edition. The Introduction in Great Part Re-written. 1885. Geo. Barber.
• Book: Mumm, Susan. All Saints Sisters of the Poor: An Anglican Sisterhood in the Nineteenth Century. 2001. Boydell & Brewer. 978-0-85115-728-3. 63.
• Book: Thomson, Theodore Radford. Epsom College Register, 1855-1954. Edited by T.R. Thomson. [With Plates and a Plan.].. 1955. Oxford.
• Lewis. C.A.. Oxbridge clerics and early ringing in South Africa. . The Ringing World. 2008. 5087. 1101–1105.
• Book: Meer, Shamim. Women Speak: Reflections on Our Struggles, 1982-1997. 1998. Oxfam. 978-0-85598-416-8. 107.