Richard Mayston

Richard John Forrester Mayston CBE was an Anglican priest.

[1] He was born in Dublin on 23 January 1907, educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1931.

[2] He began his career as a curate in Holywood, County Down.

Commissioned into the Royal Army Chaplains' Department, he served until 1958.

[3] He then became Provost of Leicester Cathedral, a post he held until his death on 13 May 1963.