Ingram Cleasby

(Thomas Wood) Ingram Cleasby was the Dean of Chester in the latter part of the 20th century.

Biography Ingram Cleasby was born on 27 March 1920 in Kendal, Westmorland, England, and was educated at Sedbergh and Magdalen College, Oxford.

He saw active service with the British Army during the Second World War, receiving a commission as a second lieutenant into the Border Regiment on 14 December 1940, his service number being 160854. Cleasby was posted to the regiment's 1st Battalion, a Regular Army unit. he became Chaplain to the Archbishop of York in 1952. Following this he was Anglican Chaplain to the University of Nottingham and then Archdeacon of Chesterfield (1963–1978) before his elevation to the Deanery. Described in his Daily Telegraph obituary as a "broad, inclusive, traditional Anglican", he died in Dent, Cumbria, at the age of 88 on 9 February 2009.