James Simpson (priest)

James Gilliland Simpson[1] (16 October 1865 – 10 October 1948[2]) was the Dean of Peterborough in the Church of England from 1928 to 1942.

[3] He was educated at the City of London School and Trinity College, Oxford,[4] he was ordained in 1889 and began his career with a curacy at Leeds Parish Church.

[5] He was then appointed Vice Principal of Edinburgh Theological College[6] after which he was Principal of Leeds Clergy School[7] before becoming Canon of Manchester in 1910.

[8] Two years later he became a Canon of St Paul's, a post he held for seventeen years before his elevation to the Deanery.

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