Decimus Govett

Decimus Storry Govett (1827 – 30 August 1912) was an Anglican priest in the last decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th.[1]

He was born in 1827[2] and educated at Wadham College, Oxford. After ordination he held curacies at Ashford, Staines and Frampton Cotterell and was then a chaplain at Antibes, Nice and Marseilles; after which he became archdeacon, then Dean of Gibraltar.[3] He died on 30 August 1912.[4]

Notes

  1. "Role overseas". Archived from the original on July 30, 2009. Retrieved 2010-10-09.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  3. Deans of Gibraltar Archived July 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  4. Obituary- The Dean Of Gibraltar, The Times, 3 September 1912, p. 7.
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
Inaugural appointment
Dean of Gibraltar
1905 1912
Succeeded by
William Thomas Baring Hayter


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