George Addleshaw

George William Outram Addleshaw (1 December 1906 – 14 June 1982) was an Anglican cleric who was Dean of Chester in the third quarter of the 20th century.

[1] He was born in 1906 in Gorefield Vicarage, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, the son of Canon Stanley Addleshaw.

[3] Ordained in 1931, he was initially a Curate at Highfield Parish Church, Southampton.

Following this he became Vice Principal of St Chad's College, Durham, then a Canon Residentiary at York Minster before his elevation to the Deanery of Chester.

[4] A man with extensive knowledge of church architecture,[5] he died on 14 June 1982.

Memorial in Chester Cathedral
10 Precentor's Court, York, where Addleshaw was living in the 1950s