About Richard Mayston
Lived 1907 – 1963 (aged 55–56). Richard Mayston was a priest.
Richard John Forrester Mayston CBE was an Anglican priest.
He was born in Dublin on 23 January 1907, educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1931. He began his career as a curate in Holywood, County Down. Commissioned into the Royal Army Chaplains' Department, he served until 1958. He then became Provost of Leicester Cathedral, a post he held until his death on 13 May 1963.
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British priest (1907–1963)
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