John Arthur Simpson OBE (7 June 1933 – 24 April 2019) was an Anglican priest.
[2] After National Service, where he learned Russian at Cambridge and worked as an interpreter in East Berlin, he went on to study Modern History at Keble College, Oxford, graduating in 1958.
He was then Vicar of Ridge, Hertfordshire until 1981 when he began his long association with the Diocese of Canterbury.
[2] In 1986 he was installed as the Dean of Canterbury, heading the large chapter and staff of the cathedral until his retirement in 2000.
In December 2000 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for "services to the Church of England".