Frank Bennett

Frank Selwyn Macaulay Bennett (28 October 1866 – 14 November 1947) was an Anglican cleric and scholar. He was a reforming dean of Chester in the first half of the 20th century.

He was born in Torquay, Devon, the son of Henry Edward Bennett of Sparkford Hall, Somerset, and the Canadian-born Louisa Birchall Macaulay, daughter of Sir James Buchanan Macaulay, Chief Justice of Toronto. He was educated at Sherborne and Keble College, Oxford. He was private chaplain to Bishop Jayne of Chester and then held incumbencies at Portwood and Hawarden before his elevation to the deanery. He was eulogised as the man who made Chester Cathedral "the home of the Diocese".