Christopher Spafford

Christopher Garnett Howsin Spafford (1924–2011) was Provost of Newcastle from 1976[1] to 1989.

Spafford was born into an ecclesiastical family[2] on 10 September 1924, educated at Marlborough College and St John's College, Oxford and ordained in 1950.

[3] After curacies at Brighouse and Huddersfield he held incumbencies at Hebden Bridge, Thornhill and Shrewsbury.

[4] He was Provost of Newcastle Cathedral from 1976 to 1989.

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