Jeffery Robert Fenwick (born 1930) was an eminent

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priest in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

History

He was born on 8 April 1930, educated at

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and ordained in 1956. After a curacy at St Thomas the Martyr, Upholland he became Priest in charge at

Daramombe Christ the King Daramombe, is an Anglican mission school in Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe, located at the eastern end of the Daramombe Hills, about from Chivhu and from the Chivhu–Murambinda Highway (Murambinda). It is a boarding school w ...

in what is now Zimbabwe. After incumbencies in Gatooma and Salisbury East he became

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in 1970 and Dean of Bulawayo in 1975. He was a

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at Worcester Cathedral from 1978 until 1985 when he became Dean of

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, a post he held until his retirement six years later.

References

1930 births Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge Anglican archdeacons in Africa Church of England deans Living people {{Zimbabwe-bio-stub