Frank Bennett (scholar) explained
Frank Selwyn Macaulay Bennett was a reforming dean[1] of Chester[2] in the first half of the 20th century[3] and an Anglican scholar.[4]
He was born on 28 October 1866 and educated at Sherborne and Keble College, Oxford.[5] He was private chaplain to Bishop Jayne of Chester and then held incumbencies at Portwood and Hawarden[6] before his elevation to the deanery.[7] A man who made Chester Cathedral "the home of the Diocese,[8] he died on 14 November 1947.
Notes and References
- "The cathedral 'open and free' Dean Bennett of Chester" Bruce A Liverpool Liverpool University Press, 2000
- News: Foreign News: More Good Than Harm? . . 16 May 1927 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101125025027/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,736682,00.html . 25 November 2010.
- http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=39991 British History On-line
- Amongst others he wrote "Coué and his Gospel of Health", 1923; "A Soul in the Making", 1924; "The Nature of a Cathedral", 1925; "Expecto", 1926; "Mary Jane and Harry John", 1927; "On Cathedrals in the Meantime", 1928; and "The Resurrection of the Dead", 1929. British Library web site accessed 8 September 2010.
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- The Times, 20 March 1937; pg. 9; Issue 47638; col G "Ecclesiastical News New Dean Of Chester".
- "Dean F. S. M. Bennett Cathedral Ideals". The Times. 15 November 1947; pg. 6; Issue 50919; col G.