George William Outram Addleshaw (1 December 1906 – 14 June 1982) was an Anglican cleric who was Dean of Chester in the third quarter of the 20th century.[1]
He was born in 1906 in Gorefield Vicarage, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, the son of Canon Stanley Addleshaw.[2] He was educated at Bromsgrove and Trinity College, Oxford.[3] Ordained in 1931, he was initially a Curate at Highfield Parish Church, Southampton. Following this he became Vice Principal of St Chad's College, Durham, then a Canon Residentiary at York Minster before his elevation to the Deanery of Chester.[4] A man with extensive knowledge of church architecture,[5] he died on 14 June 1982.[6] In the 1950s, Addleshaw was living at 10 Precentor's Court, adjacent to York Minster.[7]