David Frayne
David Frayne (19 October 1934 – 15 September 2025) was an English Anglican priest and Provost of Blackburn Cathedral.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Frayne was born on 19 October 1934. He was educated at Reigate Grammar School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and ordained in 1961.[3] He was Curate at St Michael, East Wickham. Then Priest in charge of St Barnabas, Downham.[4] Frayne held incumbencies at The Barn Church, Kew,[5] Caterham, St Mary Redcliffe with St John the Baptist Bedminster, Bristol,[6] before he was appointed Provost of Blackburn in December 1992.
He retired in September 2001 as dean following the reclassification of all provosts the previous year.[7][8][9]
Frayne died after a short illness at Southmead Hospital, on 15 September 2025, at the age of 91.[10]
References
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- ↑ "Church makes a case for role in 2000". lancashiretelegraph.co.uk. 15 October 1997. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- ↑ Handbook of British Chronology. Fryde, E.B; Greenway, D.E; Porter, S.; Roy, I. Cambridge University Press, 1996 ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5
- ↑ Crockford’s 1975-76, Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
- ↑ Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
- ↑ Blomfield, David (September 2012). "The Kew Clergy and the Cross of Nails". The Link - the Magazine for the Kew Parishes of St Luke's and St Philip's (36): 4.
- ↑ The Times, 5 July 1984; p. 13; Issue 61875; col G Letters page
- ↑ "Celebration is the icing on the cake". lancashiretelegraph.co.uk. 26 September 2000. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
- ↑ "Dean saying a fond farewell". Lancashire Telegraph. 25 January 2001. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ↑ "Dean's off to a life of 'walking and the cello'". Lancashire Telegraph. 30 August 2001. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ↑ "The Very Rev'd David Frayne". North Somerset Times. 15 October 2025. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
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