John Kenneth Robinson (17 December 1936 – 5 August 2020) was an
Anglican
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priest
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.
Robinson was educated at
Balshaw's Grammar School, Leyland and trained for the
priesthood at
King's College London
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. He was
ordained
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in 1963. After
curacies at St Chad's
Poulton-le-Fylde
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There is evidence of human habitatio ...
and
Lancaster Priory
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, in 1966 he became a
chaplain
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at St John's Army Children's School,
Singapore
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and then the
vicar
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of Holy Trinity,
Colne
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The ...
. He then became Director of
Education
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for the
Diocese of the Windward Isles and then the
vicar
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of St Luke's
Skerton
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. After this he was a minor canon at
St Edmundsbury Cathedral
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and then
chaplain
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of
Greater Lisbon
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. In 1994 he became the
Archdeacon of Gibraltar and in 2000 its
Dean
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. He resigned in 2003 and died on August 5, 2020, in
Lancashire
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at the age of 83.
References
1936 births
2020 deaths
People educated at Balshaw's Grammar School
Alumni of the Theological Department of King's College London
Archdeacons of Gibraltar
Deans of Gibraltar
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