John Petty (priest)

John Fitzmaurice Petty (9 March 1935[1] – 23 August 2017) was a British Anglican priest.

Petty was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Cuddesdon Theological College in Oxford and ordained in 1967[2] after an earlier military career with the Royal Engineers lasting 11 years.

From 1975 to 1987 he was Vicar of St John the Evangelist, Hurst Cross, Ashton-under-Lyne[4] when he became Provost of the Cathedral Church of St Michael, Coventry and was later appointed Dean of Coventry, a position he held until his retirement in 2000.

[3] Petty later became chaplain at Mount House Residential Home in Shrewsbury, a trustee of the Simeon Trust, and assisted at St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury.

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