Alex Wedderspoon
Template:Use dmy dates Alexander Gillan Wedderspoon (3 April 1931 – 10 June 2014) was an Anglican priest, academic, and British Army officer. He was Dean of Guildford from 1987 to 2001.
Early life
Wedderspoon was born on 3 April 1931 in Glasgow, Scotland.[1] His father was a Church of Scotland minister.[2] He was educated at Westminster School, then an all-boys public school in London. After his military service, he went on to study at Jesus College, Oxford.[1]
Career
Military service
Wedderspoon undertook National Service as a commissioned officer in the British Army.[3] He was commissioned on 1 April 1950 as a second lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery.[4] On 16 December 1951, he was granted the acting rank of lieutenant.[5] He relinquished his commission, therefore ending his liability for call up, on 1 February 1962.[6]
Religious life
Wedderspoon was ordained in 1961. He was then a curate in Kingston upon Thames, a lecturer in religious education at the University of London, priest in charge of St Margaret's, Westminster[7] and then a canon residentiary at Winchester Cathedral before his appointment at Guildford Cathedral, a position he held for 14 years.[8]
Later life
He died on 10 June 2014.[9]
Notes
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External links
- The Very Rev Alexander Wedderspoon - obituary. In: The Daily Telegraph, 26 June 2014
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- 1931 births
- 2014 deaths
- Military personnel from Glasgow
- 20th-century British Army personnel
- People educated at Westminster School, London
- Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
- Royal Artillery officers
- Academics of the University of London
- Deans of Guildford