Alexander Francis Knight, OBE (24 July 1939 – 21 November 2023) was an English Anglican clergyman who was the Dean of Lincoln from 1998 to 2006.BBC News
Biography Alexander Francis Knight was born into an ecclesiastical family on 24 July 1939.His father was the Rev Benjamin Edward KnightWho's Who2008: London, A & C Black He was educated at Taunton School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1954, after a spell as a curate at Hemel HempsteadCrockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 (100th edition), Church House Publishing () he became chaplain at his old school and then director of the Bloxham Project, an inter-school council to address the role of religion in schools. From here he became Director of Studies at the Aston Training Scheme, then priest in charge of Easton and Martyr Worthy in Hampshire. Finally (before his elevation to the deanery), he became Archdeacon of BasingstokeChurch News The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 10 August 1982; pg. 10; Issue 61308 and a canon residentiary at Winchester Cathedral.'KNIGHT, Very Rev. Alexander Francis', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, November 2016 accessed 7 October 2017
Knight was appointed OBE in 2006. He died on 21 November 2023, at the age of 84.
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