Richard Lewis (priest) explained

Richard Lewis (24 December 1935 – 10 June 2022)^[1] was the Dean of Wells from 1990 to 2003.

Lewis was educated at the Royal Masonic School for Boys and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1960^[2] he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Hinckley following which he was Priest in charge of St Edmund, Riddlesdown. He then held incumbencies in South Merstham, Wimbledon and Dulwich before his elevation to the Deanery.^[3]

Lewis died on 10 June 2022, at the age of 86.^[4]

Notes and References

1. LEWIS, Very Rev. Richard’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011; online edn, Nov 2011 accessed 21 June 2012
2. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
3. [Debrett's]
4. https://epaper.thetimes.co.uk/the-times Lewis