(Philip Joseph) Griff Dines is a former Provost[1] of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow[2] He was born on 22 June 1959 [3] and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle, University College London and Clare College, Cambridge.
After curacies in Northolt and Withington he was Vicar of St Martin, Wythenshawe from 1991 [4] until his cathedral appointment.
In 2005 he became Business Manager of the Macdonald Associates Consultancy, where he worked with David Dadswell, who is now Diocesan Secretary of the Diocese of Lincoln.
[citation needed] Following his role as Business Manager he became a teacher of mathematics and statistics at Lincoln University Technical College in 2016.
[7] Dines left his post at the Bishop of Lincoln's office in December 2019 and moved to Spain to resume his teaching career.