DEATHS among the
episcopate included those of the Rt Revd Michael Mann, former Dean
of Windsor; the Rt Revd Dr Kenneth Cragg, Islamic scholar and
former assistant bishop in the Jerusalem archbishopric; the Rt Revd
Clarence Pope, former Bishop of Fort Worth; the Rt Revd Ambrose
Weekes, former Chaplain of the Fleet, Dean of Gibraltar, and
Suffragan Bishop in Europe; the Rt Revd Dr Mazilimani Azariah,
former General Secretary of the Church of South India, and later
Bishop in Madras.
The Rt Revd Kobina
Quashie, former Bishop of Cape Coast; the Rt Revd Roger White,
former Bishop of Milwaukee; the Rt Revd Anthony Dumper, former
Suffragan Bishop of Dudley; the Rt Revd Eric Devenport, former
Suffragan Bishop of Dunwich; the Rt Revd K. H. Ting, the last
Bishop of Zhejiang, and leader of the Protestant Church in
China.
DEATHS among the clergy
included those of the Revd John Suddards, Vicar of Thornbury and
Oldbury-on-Severn with Shepperdine, who was murdered in February;
the Revd Alyn Haskey, associate priest at St Christopher with St
Philip, Sneinton; the Revd Christopher Jones, Policy Officer for
Home Affairs in the Mission and Public Affairs Division of the
Archbishops' Council; the Revd Tom Heffer, General Secretary of the
Mission to Seafarers.
Canon James Colling,
Rector of Warrington at the time of the IRA bombing, and former
Chaplain to the Queen; the Revd Dr Dudley Clarke, former Chaplain
of Monkton Combe School; Canon Thomas Smail, former Vice-Principal
of St John's College, Nottingham; the Revd Dr Alan Megahey,
schoolmaster and historian; the Revd John Pollock, Christian
biographer; Canon Dick France, New Testament scholar and a former
Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford; Canon Thomas Christie, a former
chairman of Church House Publishing; Canon Charles Shells, founder
of the Painting and Prayer Movement.
The Ven. Dr David
Griffiths, former Archdeacon of Berkshire; Canon Simon Mein, former
Chaplain of St Andrew's School, Delaware; the Revd Cuthbert Mather,
former Rector of Needham and Rushall, and in holy orders for 72
years; the Revd Dillwyn Thomas, former Vicar of All Saints',
Penarth, and Canon of Llandaff Cathedral; Canon Eric James, former
Director of Christian Action, noted for his work for the report
Faith in the City.
The Revd Ronald Swain,
possibly the oldest Anglican priest in England at 103; the Revd
John Swallow, former Rector of West Mersea with East Mersea; the
Very Revd John Lang, former BBC Head of Religious Broadcasting, and
Dean of Lichfield; Canon Patrick Kent, former Chaplain of St Chad's
College, Durham; Canon Reginald Askew, former Principal of
Salisbury and Wells Theological College, and Dean of King's
College, London; Canon Ernest Brown, former Vicar of Thurnby with
Stoughton; Prebendary James Trevelyan, Companion of the Society of
St Francis, and sailor.
The Very Revd Ian Watt,
former Provost of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth, and Dean of St
Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane diocese; Canon John Turner, former
Precentor of Lichfield Cathedral; the Revd Humphrey Newman,
successively Vicar of Welling and of St John's, Penge, and Rector
of Knockholt; the Revd Richard Blakeway-Phillips, botanist; the
Revd Professor Christopher Evans, New Testament scholar; the Revd
Robin Denniston, former publisher at OUP, and former chairman of
Mowbray's.
The Revd Iris Thomas, the
first woman to be made deacon in the Church in Wales; Canon John
Spence, former Bush Brother, and Bishop's Chaplain at Truro; Canon
Michael Baker, Chaplain to Northamptonshire County Cricket Club;
the Revd Graham Hullett, motorcyclist; Canon Paul Carter, for 60
years a priest in Yorkshire; the Revd John Chapman, Australian
evangelist; the Revd Alistair McGlashan, missionary in Tamil Nadu
and psychoanalyst; the Revd Dr Peter Staples, lecturer in church
history at Utrecht; the Very Revd Michael Till, former Dean of
King's College, Cambridge, Archdeacon of Canterbury, and Dean of
Winchester; the Very Revd Richard Eyre, former Dean of Exeter.
DEATHS among lay people
included the Earl Ferrers, former High Steward of Norwich
Cathedral; the Lady Runcie, pianist, restorer of Lambeth Palace
Garden, and widow of the late Archbishop of Canterbury; Sir Stuart
Bell, former Third Church Estates Commissioner; Sir Philip Ledger,
former Director of Music at King's College, Cambridge; Sir Bernard
Lovell, first Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory.
Dr Ruth Etchells, first
female principal of a C of E theological college; Professor John
Hick, theologian; Professor Suzanne Martineau, ecumenist; Leonard
Rosoman, artist; Chuck Colson, founder of the Prison Fellowship; Dr
John Birch, organist, choral director, and teacher; Dora Saint
(Miss Read), teacher and novelist; Billy Neely, former boy soprano;
Major Kenneth Adams, businessman and church administrator.
Christopher Chapman,
former Vice-Principal of St John's College, York; Carlo Curley,
international concert organist; Tony Bishop, in- terpreter and
Russophile inspirer of the Philokalia Society; Valerie Eliot, T. S.
Eliot's widow and editor; Jhan Moskowitz, a founder of Jews for
Jesus; Donald Wright, former Secretary to the Crown Appointments
Commission; Anthony Cooke, former director of music at Leeds
Grammar School; Derek Wills, for 65 years chorister of St
Barnabas's, Linthorpe.
Patrick Locke, former
Secretary of the Church Commissioners; Lionel Wadeson, former
Assistant Secretary of the Church Assembly and the General Synod;
Kathleen Lee, former nursing missionary in China; Jonathan Harvey,
composer.
AMONG Roman Catholic,
Orthodox, and Free Church clergy whose deaths were noted were the
Coptic Pope Shenouda III; Ignatius IV, Primate of the Greek
Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East; Patriarch Maxim of the
Bulgarian Orthodox Church; Patriarch Abune Paulos of the Ethiopian
Orthodox Tewahedo Church; Cardinal Carlo Martini, former Roman
Catholic Archbishop of Milan; Mathews Mar Barnabas, former
Metropolitan of the the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church; the Revd
Dr Ray Davey, founder of the Corrymeela Community.
The Rt Revd Kuno Pajula, former Archbishop of the Estonian
Evangelical Lutheran Church; the Rt Revd Mack Boyd Stokes, bishop
in the United Methodist Church.