Christopher Spafford
Dean of Newcastle
About Christopher Spafford
Lived 1924 – 2011 (aged 86–87). Christopher Spafford was a provost, curate and vicar.
Christopher Garnett Howsin Spafford (1924–2011) was Provost of Newcastle from 1976 to 1989.
Spafford was born into an ecclesiastical family on 10 September 1924, educated at Marlborough College and St John's College, Oxford and ordained in 1950. After curacies at Brighouse and Huddersfield he held incumbencies at Hebden Bridge, Thornhill and Shrewsbury. He was Provost of Newcastle Cathedral from 1976 to 1989.
Spafford died in September 2011.
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Who was Christopher Spafford?
dean of Newcastle (1924-2011)
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Christopher Spafford was born on 10 September 1924.
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Christopher Spafford died in 2011.
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Christopher Spafford was a provost, curate and vicar.
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