William Foxley Norris KCVO (4 February 1859 – 28 September 1937) was Dean of York between 1917 and 1925 and of Westminster from then until his death in 1937.

Born into a clerical family,[1] he was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Oxford,[2] before taking holy orders at Leeds Clergy School.

After curacies in Eton and Chatham he embarked on a career that was to take him from pastoral (Incumbencies in Oxfordshire and Yorkshire[3]) to administrative (Diocesan Educational Inspector[4]) posts before a steady rise up the ecclesiastical ladder.

He was successively Rural Dean of Silkstone, Rector of Barnsley, and Archdeacon of Halifax.

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