Henry Stapleton

Henry Edward Champneys Stapleton Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 17 June 1932) was Dean of Carlisle from 1988 to 1998.

Stapleton was educated at Lancing College and Pembroke College, Cambridge and ordained in 1956. He held Curate, curacies at St Olave with St Giles, York and All Saints' Pocklington. He was Vicar of Seaton Ross then Rector (ecclesiastical), Rector of Skelton, York, Skelton. From 1975 to 1981 he was Vicar of Wroxham and then a Canon (priest), canon residentiary at Rochester Cathedral until his appointment as Dean of Carlisle.Debrett's ''People of Today'': P. Ellis, ed (1992), London, Debrett's) p1905 )

An author, his writings include ''Skelton Village'' (1971). ''Heirs without Title'' (1974), ''The Skilful Master Builder'' (1975), ''The Model Working Parson'' (1976) and ''The Churchyards Handbook'' (with Peter Burman, 1988).

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1932 births
People educated at Lancing College
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Deans of Carlisle
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