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Name
  
Dick Wingfield-Digby

Role
  
Chaplain

Died
  
January 29, 2007


Education
  
Christ's College, Cambridge

Richard Shuttleworth "Dick" Wingfield-Digby (19 August 1911 – 29 January 2007) was the Dean of Peterborough in the Church of England from 1966 until 1980.

He was educated at the Nautical College, Pangbourne and Christ's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1937 and began his career with a curacy at St Andrew’s, Rugby. He then became a Chaplain to the Forces and was a Prisoner of war from 1940 until 1945. When peace returned he became Vicar of All Saints, Newmarket and then Rural Dean of Bury before his elevation to the Deanery.

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Dick Wingfield-Digby Wikipedia


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