Michael Leslie Yorke

Michael Leslie Yorke
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The Very Rev Michael Leslie Yorke was an eminent Anglican Priest in the last decades of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st.[1] He was born on 25 March 1939[2] and educated at Midhurst Grammar School and

Magdalene College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1965 his first post was a curacy at Croydon Parish Church [3] after which he served as Succentor, Precentor and Chaplain at Chelmsford Cathedral. Following this he was Rector of Hadstock, a Canon Residentiary at Chelmsford Cathedral, Vicar of St Margaret’s with St Nicholas, King’s Lynn and Provost of Portsmouth Cathedral.[4] In 1999 he became Dean of Lichfield, and is now in retirement Dean Emeritus.

Church of England titles
Preceded by
David Staffurth Stancliffe		 Provost of Portsmouth
1994 – 1999		 Succeeded by
William Henry Taylor
Preceded by
Nicholas Thomas Wright		 Dean of Lichfield
1999 – 2005		 Succeeded by
Adrian John Dorber

Notes

  1. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing ISBN 9780715110300
  2. ^ Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black ISBN 9780713672576
  3. ^ Church web-site
  4. ^ History In Portsmouth
v · d · eProvosts of Portsmouth

Bernard Williams • Thomas Heywood Masters • Eric Noel Porter Goff • Michael John Nott • David Staffurth Stancliffe • Michael Leslie Yorke • William Henry Taylor
v · d · eDeans of Lichfield since 1908

Henry Edwin Savage • Frederic Athelwold Iremonger • William Stuart MacPherson • George Edward Holderness • John Harley Lang • Nicholas Thomas Wright • Michael Leslie Yorke • Adrian John Dorber •



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