Richard Mayston

Richard John Forrester Mayston CBE was an Anglican priest.[1]

Richard John Forrester Mayston
CBE
Provost of Leicester Cathedral
In office
1958–1963

He was born in Dublin on 23 January 1907, educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1931.[2] He began his career as a curate in Holywood, County Down. Commissioned into the Royal Army Chaplains' Department, he served until 1958.[3] He then became Provost of Leicester Cathedral, a post he held until his death on 13 May 1963.[4]

Notes
  1. "The Mayston Chair", Leicester Anglican Cathedral
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947-48 Oxford: OUP (1947)
  3. "Who was Who, 1897–2007", Who's Who, London: A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  4. "Very Rev. R. J. F. Mayston Provost of Leicester", The Times, 14 May 1963; p. 17; Issue 55700; column B
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