Lionel Ford

Lionel George Bridges Justice Ford (3 September 1865 – 27 March 1932) was an Anglican priest who served as Dean of York after two headmasterships at notable English independent schools.

Ford was educated at Repton School and King's College, Cambridge, where he won the Chancellor's Classical Medal[3][4] and was a member of the Pitt Club.

[5] He became a school master at Eton, and was ordained a curate in the Anglican church in 1893.

[6] In 1898 and 1899 he played cricket for minor county Buckinghamshire.

[8] in 1925 he became the dean at York, a post he was to hold until his death on Easter Sunday seven years later.