Dennis Page Explained

Dennis Fountain Page (1 December 1919  - 19 January 2009[1]) was the Anglican Bishop of Lancaster from 1975 until 1985.

Page was educated at Shrewsbury School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[2] He was ordained in 1943 and was a curate at Rugby, Warwickshire before becoming the priest in Charge of Hillmorton[3] and then the Rector of Hockwold.[4] From 1965 to 1975 he was the Archdeacon of Huntingdon before his ordination to the episcopate[5] by Stuart Blanch, Archbishop of York, at Blackburn Cathedral on 1 March 1975.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.legacy.com/timesonline-uk/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=123186306 Obituary
  2. Who's Who 1992 “(London, A & C Black)
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976
  4. http://www.hockwold.info/History/VicarsRectors_StJames.htm "Rectors of Hockwold"
  5. Debrett's People of Today 1992, (London, Debrett's),)