Leonard George (Len) Tyler (15 April 1920 – 21 September 2010) was

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from 1962 until 1966. Tyler was educated at Darwen Grammar School;

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;

Christ's College, Cambridge Christ's College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 250 graduate students. The c ...

; and Westcott House. He was

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in 1926. He was successively * Chaplain,

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School,

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, Manchester *

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Leigh, Lancashire Leigh is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on low-lying land northwest of Chat Moss. Within the boundaries of the Historic counties of England, historic county of Lancashire, Leigh was originally the centre of a large ecclesiastical paris ...

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adviser to

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1920 births 20th-century English Anglican priests 21st-century English Anglican priests Alumni of the University of Liverpool Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Alumni of Westcott House, Cambridge Archdeacons of Rochdale 2010 deaths People educated at Darwen Grammar School {{York-archdeacon-stub