John Clement Du Buisson (12 October 1871 – 18 April 1938) was an

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. Du Buisson was born into an ecclesiastical family and educated at

Hereford Cathedral School Hereford Cathedral School is a private, co-educational boarding and day school for pupils of ages 3 to 18 years, from nursery to sixth form. Its headmaster is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The school's premises a ...

and

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in 1897, he began his career with a

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Hawarden Hawarden (; ) is a village and community (Wales), community in Flintshire, Wales. It is part of the Deeside conurbation on the Wales-England border and is home to Hawarden Castle (medieval), Hawarden Castle. In the 2011 United Kingdom census, ...

after which he was Subwarden then

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of Bishop's Hostel,

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. He was then Warden of

St Deiniol's Library Gladstone's Library, known until 2010 as St Deiniol's Library (), is a residential library in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales, UK. Gladstone's Library is Britain's only Prime Ministerial Library and serves as the national memorial to William Ew ...

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/ref> until his appointment in 1921 as

Dean of St Asaph This is a list of the deans of St Asaph Cathedral, Wales. *-1357 Llywelyn ap Madog *1357–1376 William Spridlington *1403 Richard Courtenay (afterwards Dean of Wells, 1410) *1455-1461 David Blodwell *1463-1492 John Tapton *1511-1542 Fouke ...

References

1871 births 1938 deaths Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Deans of St Asaph People educated at Hereford Cathedral School {{ChurchinWales-clergy-stub